Tiger Woods '97 Win at Augusta: Remembered

before 14 majors before green jackets before a green jacket Tiger Woods had not even broken the car in six rounds of his Masters career however in the days leading up to the then 21-year-old's closest since the 1997 Masters would be different in the practice rounds At home, before arriving at Augusta National, he shot that famous 59 in I or if the next day, of course, here we go again, we go out in ten and once again he gets up, He birdies 10 and then we go to the 11th tee. It's a par 3 over the water, he hits an 8 iron and it flies, he makes a hole in one and I look at it and I take my cart and I drive back to my house.

I finished, he made the hole for birdie and one. after shooting 59, I say, well, this is ridiculous in 95 in 96 he played practice rounds with the help of certain players Fred Couples and Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus experience on the golf course he felt prepared to play on the eve of 97 role As a teacher, Woods ran into Tim Finchem and told the commissioner that the Tigers were going to win the neurosis tournament. He looked at me like I was crazy even though Woods had three wins in 14 career starts as a PGA Tour professional and his two previous finishes at Augusta resulted in a tie for 41st and a missed cut in the first round, he played with six-time Major winner and defending champion Nick Faldo.

Tiger was a young kid who probably would have appreciated someone being very laid back, but Fowler was the complete opposite, he was a bit like Hogan. you know he could be intimidating without even trying to be. I have never tried cunning with anyone. He was upside down in Kazan. It's like I did with everyone I played with Tiger. He appears in the first hose chemist oculus video and I thought maybe. I wouldn't call him a nurse, but maybe he'd be a little uneasy, they didn't look very funny now that we're in the

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, we took 40, not what he would have liked, a big 40 walking from the green nine to the 10 P. it was like if Superman put on his cape, he was really angry, you could see it in his face and I had seen Tiger that way several times, especially at the US championships, he played much better when he was angry.

Woods made his first birdie of the day on the 10th hole, after a par on the 11th, he hit his tee shot over the green on the par 3, 12th, he was looking at a bogey and another bogey at that point would have been too much to recover in terms of overall score. -Run, how good is this shot that lifts 12's back and that was basically the beginning of his career. I say it jokingly. From there, we didn't see him in the dust for the next 12 years for birdies and an eagle on the second. nine resulted in 30, 10 shots better than his first nine, overall score of 70 for Tiger in fourth place, one shot behind Paul Azinger, who he played in Round 2, is playing another former Major champion, another person who could intimidate you, not intimidate you. a bit to me, he was just another player.

I had never seen Tiger hit a shot in my life, so I said, I'm going to watch this shot, and when he hit it I looked at my caddy and just said, "Holy, this is it." the best golfer in the world, he is 21 years old and I think it is incredible, as Paul describes the shots of a

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that carry extra integrity. He was so impressed that it was like watching Bob Beamon, you know, from 29 feet, he was some transcendent athleticism on the front nine of the round. two shots of 34 wood six strokes better than the previous day after reaching the par 5 13 with an 8 iron, he had an eagle putt to take the lead, he let the record show shortly after 5:30 this Friday for the eleventh taking of the Tiger. the lead for the first time in the Masters.

I remember talking to Earl afterwards, he said that once Tiger took the lead, he would expand it. That's the point at which he predicted it would be more than 27 holes, the treasure is more. Instead of taking the long route, he now has a lot more experience in major golf championships and has, whether he's throwing a garland or not, Tiger took it that way. Tiger from an early age wore anything that he could perceive as light even. If it wasn't like a portion for fuel, I was trying to get to the worldborn and he obviously wasn't ranked and I felt like at least I have some experience on him, but we weren't ready.

I don't think the world was very aware of what was going to happen. He really didn't have any weaknesses. He hit the ball tremendous distances. He had great precision. Go to the first tee on Saturday morning, he said, show Colin Montgomerie who you are and Tire said, don't worry, I've got it, I'll do it. He was hitting the ball 320 and I was stuck at 270, which was what was good at 97, but that's how it was. 50 yards behind and there's more on them that I witnessed, they were rounded, I silvered what didn't seem to have cleared, then I realized something had come, something was different for this guy, there is no humanly possible chance that Tiger Woods is going to lose this tournament. knowing the shelves are clean and I'm sure I'll be out tomorrow having witnessed what I just witnessed, he was deflating, he was deflating to everyone who saw him.

The matches marked the largest lead in three rounds. Woods needed a final round of 69 to break the 72 of Jack Nicklaus and Raymond Floyd. Cue hole score record 71 His opponents have never been people His opponents have always been history He always wanted to break all the records He always wanted to do things that had never been done. I started running. He had a perfection that has not really been achieved yet. Definite break on the 17th tee. I just thought about the army I was under and just on a scoreboard I saw I was 18 and I thought I could still have my par on the last two holes which fits the Lyndon Baines straight away, I'm sticking with it, but that they were with the fist that it was worth it, I came crying, mines, he directed all his emotions, which he was very good at keeping inside, but when he was on parole and enjoyed, in a way he faced it all, he dug into the girl after her victories with the American Ammeter. but this was something special, they had been pointing it out for a long time.

What always caught my attention was the almost magical way in which he would win the Masters in 1997. It was just magical that whole week, so you're doing the The fashion that I did is something that's never really adrenal. It's a nice thing, since it should have come to reality. Tiger because I knew he had a gift from the beginning. His goal was to make history to have an impact and the biggest impact he could have. with winning the Masters