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Woods Wins Sixth Straight Tournament In Easy Fashion
Christopher Cornell
Tiger Woods is playing some of the best golf of his career. Although he says the streak is over, Woods won his sixth consecutive PGA tour event on Sunday in the American Express Championship. Tiger dominated the field and won the tournament by eight strokes as he finished his final round with a four under par, 67. Over the four rounds, Woods was an incredible 23 under par, shooting a total of 261.
Tiger began his current streak 10 weeks ago in the British Open, and he continued it by going wire-to-wire at Chandler's Cross this week. Woods considers the streak over because he lost in a non-PGA event at the World Match Play championships and then had a sub-par performance at the Ryder Cup.
Streak or no streak, Woods proved why he's the best player in golf today by never leaving the tournament in doubt. The only thing that threatened to derail his game was the weather. Rain delayed Woods' round twice on Sunday, but he still persevered through wet grounds to dominate again.
Woods told the AP after winning the tournament that it's time for a break.
"I'm getting away for a little bit," Woods said. "As far as golf, I've had enough of it for a while."
Tiger has played seven times in the last nine weeks.
Woods was truly dominant throughout the tournament, as he missed just 12 fairways the entire week. He hit 36 greens in regulation. His eight stroke win differential was his largest margin since winning by 11 at the 2003 Bay Hill Invitational.
Woods improved to 38-3 when he has at least a share of the lead going into the last round, and he has never lost when leading by more than one. Any thoughts about a collapse ended early, when Woods hit a long iron from 225 yards on the par-5 second that dropped softly over a bunker and stopped 3 feet away.
Woods told the AP he was able to remain focused for the entire tournament.
"This was a fun week," he said. "I hit the ball really well -- all 72 holes, really. It's fun when you can control your golf ball that well."
When asked if he could reach Byron Nelson's streak of 11 PGA event wins in a row, Woods was more than a little bit skeptical.
"It's still a long way away," he said with a laugh. "If you look at it, I'm barely halfway. What he did was absolutely remarkable, and I'm just thrilled that I've been able to win six in a row twice. That to me is a pretty neat accomplishment in itself."
Woods has already won six straight events once in his career. With four wins at the end of 1999 and two in the first two events of 2000, Woods matched Ben Hogan for the second-longest win streak in golf history. He hasn't decided if he'll play at Disney in three weeks. That would leave him with at least one more tournament for this year's season, the Tour Championship.
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