Tiger Woods 2000 US Open
It was a heck of a week at the 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach. It was the 100th playing of the Open. Payne Stewart had perished 7 months earlier in a plane crash and was not there to defend his title won the previous June at Pinehurst. Four-time champion Jack Nicklaus was competing in his 44th and final Championship. And then there was Tiger.
Tiger arrived at Pebble Beach as the favorite. But remember, in June of 2000, he wasn’t yet a super nova. He’d won the 1997 Masters, and the 1999 PGA Championship. He hadn’t yet won the U.S. Open, despite having claimed an unprecedented six USGA titles in six years, starting with the 1991 U.S. Junior Amateur and culminating with his third consecutive U.S. Amateur in 1996. But now, in the 100th edition of our National Open, at iconic Pebble Beach, that was about to change.
Tiger dominated the field that year. Just dominated. The tournament was basically over after the third round. Tiger had a double digit lead. If you thought Woods, with that big a lead on Sunday, was going to put things in cruise control, you just weren’t paying attention. He opened with nine consecutive pars. Then he walked in a birdie at the 10th. He rolled in a 20-footer for birdie on 12 and nearly jarred his approach at the 13th. Enough? Nope. He birdied the par-5 14th, too. He won the tournament by 15 strokes. FIFTEEN. And he made it look simple...one of the most remarkable performances in a US Open. Ever.
This is one of my favorite images from a US Open...I love the crazies up in the tree. Those are adults! Grown men climbing up a tree just to see Tiger Tee off. Frame #23 from my 17th roll shot on Sunday.
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