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Written by Bryan Spitzer
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
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Not that there are any guarantees in sports and that could be no truer of major championship golf, where dominance is arguably the first or second toughest feat in all of modern sport. All that said, this years US Open at Torrey Pines might be the biggest home field advantage if one ever existed. Woods has competed in the Buick Invitational at Torrey since 1998 and in that span has five wins and five top 10's (four top 5's) and in nine days is looking for three peat at the Buick coming off his win a few weeks backat the Target World Championship
The Buick Invitational uses both courses for play on Thursday and Friday but come Saturday all rounds are played on the south course, the US Open course. So in the eighteen rounds Woods has played on the South course chasing a win he is a combined -74 and highest sunday score of 72, needless to say woods is dominant at Torrey Pines and especially on the south course. For the Open par will be trimmed to an cliffhanging 70, so if we we were to add two strokes to each year's scores on Sat/Sun and changed par to 70 for those scores Woods is still -20 over the nine year span and better than -2 for each weekend. Given those constraints and conditions he still dominates this course and potential field.
Even more than year's past, this year will be a greater test of the US Open's equalizing strength, can they "Tiger proof" this track he has obliterated for a decade.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 11 January 2008 )
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