PGA Golf Talk

Tiger Woods has done it again by winning his 15th World Golf Championship title of his career and there is no stopping of this great golfing genius. Tiger Woods easily went through the Accenture Match Play Championship without being seriously tested by his opponents and pocketed his fifth consecutive victory world over. Woods said that he is planning to have a perfect season this year and will put all that he has to reach his goal. Tiger Woods performance at the Match Play Championship was really outstanding as he made 14 birdies out of the 29 holes and won by the largest margin in the history of this event. The victory at the Match Play Championship is the 63rd career title for Tiger Woods and this puts him the in the fourth position in the overall PGA tour wins list.

Tiger Woods has won four consecutive PGA tour tournaments at least three times so far and he thinks that he is in the best playing form of his entire career. This win in the Match Play Championship has made him richer by $1.35 million and his overall earnings in these tournaments are at $19.8 million. Tiger Woods is looking good to earn more millions this golfing season.

There is no doubt in Gary Nicklaus’s mind that Tiger Woods has all that is needed to win him the Grand Slam this year. Woods said that he feels that all the four major golfing tournaments can be won easily and he has proved his prowess by winning the first two season starters in 2008. Nicklaus says that if one feels that he has the ability and the determination to achieve the Grand Slam, then he should really give it a try. The Golden Bear felt that Tiger is preparing himself for the Masters and is probably more tuned to it as he has held all the four of the grand Slams at one time.

Woods became the first player to win both the Masters and the U.S Open in 2002, a feat that was achieved by Nicklaus about 30 years ago. Jack Nicklaus has won the Grand Slam in 1966 after winning the British Open that year. Nicklaus came closer in repeating the feat in 1972 and 1975, when he had won both the Masters and the U.S Open but couldn’t quite finish off at the Muirfield Open. Woods had a similar fate in 2002, when he won the Masters and the U.S Open in style and was the hot favorite to win in Muirfield. Oakland Hills will be the place where Woods will have a chance to win the Grand Slam and it is the same place where the Golden Bear missed his slam title in 1972.

Lorena Ochoa  showed amazingly good results with her 8 tour wins, 1 major, No. 1 year-end ranking, No. 1 money list, 69.69 scoring average, 21 top-10s, 1st in greens in regulation. In contrast, Woods succeeded in 7 tour wins, 1 major, No. 1 year-end ranking, No. 1 money list, 67.79 scoring average, 12 top-10s, 1st in greens in regulation. In fact, Ochoa was the first woman to eclipse the $3 million plateau and a short time later said bye-bye to the $4 million zone. So, unfortunately for Tiger, this year was definitely Ohoa’s year. Well, one cannot be a champion forever.

Eventhough Tiger Woods spent 10 weeks and four days without hitting a golf shot, it hardly became a problem for him on Thursday in the Target World Challenge when he struck just about everything where he was aiming, except for the last 18^th hole… Woods’s approach got into the hazard on the 18th hole and finished with a double bogey for a 3-under 69, leaving him one shot behind Jim Furyk in the final tournament of the year.

Tiger Woods, PGA tour champion and one of 15 top golf players in the world, will come back to action for the first time since hoisting the inaugural FedExCup. Woods is aimed to defend title and win his 4th Target World Challenge presented by Countrywide.