The Briefing Room
General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: DCPatriot on July 02, 2012, 02:30:19 am
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Tiger Woods passes Jack Nicklaus with 74th career PGA Tour win
by Cameron Morfit
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Almost everything has changed in the life of Tiger Woods over the last three years, but that was hard to keep in mind as Woods held off a pesky Bo Van Pelt at the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
For Woods and golf in general, everything is starting to look very 2009.
Woods, who shot a two-under-par 69 to beat Van Pelt by two shots, notched his 74th career victory to surpass Jack Nicklaus’s career total and take over second place alone, eight wins behind all-time victories leader Sam Snead. Woods’s victory at Congressional marked his third of the year -- he is the Tour’s first three-time winner this season -- and his first at Congressional since the 2009 AT&T.
“Yeah, pretty much everything,” Woods said, when asked which part of his game has come around the most this year. “I remember there was a time when people were saying I could never win again. That was, I think, what, six months ago. Here we are.”
Read more: http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/tiger-woods-passes-jack-nicklaus-74th-career-pga-tour-win (http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/tiger-woods-passes-jack-nicklaus-74th-career-pga-tour-win)
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Great athlete.
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Evidently, he's back.
Ricky "who"?