Tiger Watched With Us

Do you find this a little strange?

Tiger Woods didn't bother sticking around the PGA Championship for the final four holes, even though he was the clubhouse leader with an outside shot at getting into a playoff. Woods didn't see it that way.

He said Tuesday morning he flew home to Florida after he finished at 2-under 278, knowing the five players either tied or ahead of him would not drop shots over the final holes at Baltusrol, including two par 5s at the end.

Comments

[Al]

Dont you find it odd that none of the tv announcers mentioned this on Sunday or Monday.
Smells fishy to me.

[Geoff Shackelford]

I would guess they didn't know. Or, with the all of the commercial breaks, didn't have a chance to mention it. But I would suspect if Lanny Wadkins knew and had the time to talk about it, he would have been all over this!

[The Duke]

I bet they didn't know. If they did, you might as well have dubbed the monday finish "Will there be a 2-under play-off without Tiger" day. It would have have been insufferably nauseating.

[Martin Del Vecchio]

I am suspicious about this. I just don't believe that Tiger would be in Orlando while there is a sliver of a chance that he could be in a playoff in NJ.

I think that he was watching somewhere close by, and would have arrived in time for the playoff.

And to further Geoff's comments; after I was sufficiently warm, I would have walke the final few holes with Mickelson, presumably inside the ropes.

[Lynn S.]

Gary McCord indicated once that Tiger has the jet engines on and was resting on the runway waiting to see if he would be in the playoff. Either he was trying to be entertaining or was hiding the facts. I suspect the former. On the other hand, CBS has had a conflict with Tiger and would not add fuel to it by condemning him.