泰格·伍兹终于输了
2008-03-25 00:07阅读：
太不容易了！伍兹终于输了。他已经赢得了太多的胜利。恭喜Geoff Ogilvy了！
Tiger Woods' winning streak ends
Geoff Ogilvy has ended Tiger Woods' winning streak. And Ogilvy did
it on a course where Woods has looked unstoppable in recent years.
Ogilvy won the CA Championship on Monday, saving a round that
seemed in peril with a chip-in for par at the 13th hole and going
on to claim his second victory in a World Golf Championship
event.
A final-round of 1-under 71 was good enough for him to finish at 17
under, one shot better than Retief Goosen, Jim Furyk and Vijay
Singh, all closing with 68s in the rain-delayed tournament. Woods
was alone in fifth at 15 under, losing for the first time in his
last eight starts worldwide.
'It was going to end at some point,' Ogilvy said. 'I'm very glad
that I did it. It's a nice place to do it, too, because he's
obviously owned this place for the last few years. He just had one
of those weeks.'
With the win, Ogilvy joined select company — only Woods and Darren
Clarke have more than one WGC title. But this week won't be
remembered for that accomplishment: It'll be known as the week
someone finally took down Tiger.
'As players, it's nice to see somebody else lift a trophy for a
change,' Goosen said.
It was Woods' first defeat since Sept. 3, and his perfect start to
2008 — 3-for-3 on the PGA Tour, 4-for-4 overall — begged the
ridiculous-sounding question: Could he go unbeaten for an entire
year?
No one ever has, and it's not really a huge surprise that Woods
won't this year, either.
'The chit-chat about 'Is he going to win every golf tournament this
year,' that's frustrating stuff to hear,' Ogilvy said.
Woods struggled to a third-round 72 while every other contender
piled up birdies with alarming regularity, and simply dug such a
deep hole that even he couldn't escape.
'I think it's a great sign, what happened this week, to make that
many mistakes and only be two back,' Woods said.
In typical fashion, Woods made a huge charge Monday at Doral, where
he'd won each of the last three years.
Woods birdied three of the seven holes he played in the morning,
getting to 15 under but never making up the entire gap between
himself and Ogilvy, whose last win was the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged
Foot.
'You want to always win every one you play in,' Woods said. 'So
you've just got to get ready for the next one.'
His next official tournament: the Masters, where Woods' annual
Grand Slam quest will begin.
Woods started the morning five shots back with seven holes
remaining and made his typical charge, closing within two strokes
after making a 4-footer at the 17th. He birdied the 12th to start
his day, then hit his tee shot within a foot at the par-3 15th for
a tap-in.
At that moment, Ogilvy seemed in trouble.
His tee shot at the par-3 13th missed way left, and his chip from
thick, wet grass didn't even reach the green — making bogey seem
probable, until a most improbable shot followed.
Ogilvy's second chip hopped twice, hit the pin and dropped straight
in, giving the Australian a break he desperately needed. If it went
past the cup, he surely could have been looking at double-bogey —
since the ball clearly would have kept rolling for a while.
'That was moving,' Ogilvy said. 'That's why you have to hit it on
line. Flag gets in the way.'
And with the way Woods wasn't capitalizing on all his chances,
Ogilvy didn't have to be perfect, either.
Woods gave himself birdie putts on every hole he played Monday,
missing four of them, including a 15-footer at the par-4 14th hole
that left his face pained in disbelief.
He wasn't the only one misfiring on some chances in the
tournament's deciding holes.
Singh was the first one to make a run at Ogilvy, getting with a
stroke early Monday before back-to-back bogeys essentially doomed
his chances. Furyk got within one after making birdie at the 17th,
then missed the fairway at the finishing hole. Adam Scott started
the morning four shots off the pace, then inexplicably missed a
2-foot tap-in for a bogey that took away any hope of making a
run.
'People don't really understand, you need to have something happen,
a positive thing happen to you out there in order to win
tournaments,' Woods said. 'I heard Geoff bladed one in the hole for
par. That's what you need to have happen. Those are the things that
have happened to me, and things weren't going that way this
week.'
It has come to this: When Woods doesn't win, it counts as stunning
news.
He was less than an even-money favorite before the tournament
began, and at least one British bookmaker had Woods at the
preposterous odds of 1-to-3 after the second round — when he wasn't
even in the lead.
But since Woods' surge of late was amazing even by his own
standards, why would those oddsmakers expect anything less?
Woods had won nine of his last 10 starts worldwide, a run that
doesn't even include helping the United States win the Presidents
Cup.
In the first 2 1/2 months of 2008, Woods seemed unbeatable as
ever.
He won the Buick Invitational, the Dubai Desert Classic, the
Accenture Match Play and the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay
Hill. Going back to September, when this streak began, he'd
pocketed $7.2 million in prize money alone — more than Palmer, Seve
Ballesteros and Lee Trevino made in their PGA Tour careers
combined.
Woods' winnings of $285,000 this week pushed his official career
earnings to nearly $80.2 million.
He won't have to wait long for the chance to begin a new winning
streak, either. Woods was leaving Doral quickly Monday to begin
play at the Tavistock Cup, the annual two-day, Ryder Cup-style
match between tour pros from the Lake Nona and Isleworth clubs in
Orlando.
'Going to be a long day,' Woods said.
