A 24-year-old Tiger Woods arrived at Pebble Beach Golf Links in 2000 in search of his first U.S. Open title. Already with four PGA Tour wins to his credit that season, Woods' game was at its peak.
Oozing with confidence and hungry for his third major title, Woods delivered one of the most dominant performances in major championship history. Here's the best of his masterpiece on the Monterey Peninsula.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) conducts many of golf's most prestigious championships, highlighted by the U.S. Open, the U.S. Women's Open and the world’s premier amateur championships. Based in Liberty Corner, N.J., the USGA governs the game in the U.S., its territories and Mexico.
To learn more about the USGA, visit http://www.usga.org.
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A 24-year-old Tiger Woods arrived at Pebble Beach Golf Links in 2000 in search of his first U.S. Open title. Already with four PGA Tour wins to his credit that season, Woods' game was at its peak.
Oozing with confidence and hungry for his third major title, Woods delivered one of the most dominant performances in major championship history. Here's the best of his masterpiece on the Monterey Peninsula.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) conducts many of golf's most prestigious championships, highlighted by the U.S. Open, the U.S. Women's Open and the world’s premier amateur championships. Based in Liberty Corner, N.J., the USGA governs the game in the U.S., its territories and Mexico.
To learn more about the USGA, visit http://www.usga.org.
Own your piece of golf history with U.S. Open and USGA championship merchandise: http://www.usgashop.com
For the full library of historic footage and films from golf's iconic moments and figures, get the FREE USGA streaming app for Apple TV and Roku, and Amazon Fire TV.
Stream the USGA on Apple TV: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/usga/id...
Stream the USGA on Roku: https://channelstore.roku.com/details...
Stream the USGA on Amazon Fire: https://www.amazon.com/United-States-...
What makes the US Open harder is the higher cut rough, and the penalty for not keeping it in the fairway takes away shots. It's not your usual tee to fairway, chip to green, putt for birdie. When the winner of other tournaments is at -24 under par, that course is too easy for the pros. They are averaging -6 per round.
In the US Open, most times the Pros have to struggle to save par, it makes them look like us, the average golfer who is just trying to save par, make an occasional birdie, and a lot of bogies.
The US Open requires all pros to use almost every club in their bag, have to be able to play from many difficult angles and lies in the deeper rough, and limit their mistakes. I mean really, a sand wedge at the 7th to tee off with? As the graphics showed, Jim Furyk and Sergio were at +16 and +14 in the third round at that point, while Tiger was at -8.
The fact that Tiger won by 15 strokes, he almost lapped the entire field, he was the ONLY one under par, is a testament of how good he was and 2000 was his greatest year with 3 majors and 9 wins.