How Will Tiger Woods Overcome In The Presidents Cup Sunday Pairings?
Through three days of regrets and near-misses and breaks — lucky and not so — from both sides, it was a five-minute span of Woodsian heroics on a chilly, overcast morning by the Pacific which, in the end, ensured the US would have a three-point cushion going into this morning’s singles matches. “The defining moment,” as Norman would later say. Woods, partnering Steve Stricker, was one down with two holes to play in the morning alternate-shot session to the tenacious duo of Mike Weir and Tim Clark. Woods hit a birdie putt on the 17th from 20ft which laboured up the slope but, just when it looked like it would stop short, collapsed into the cup, as his putts always seem to do. He pumped his fist, showing the most emotion he’s ever shown at a Presidents Cup, but it should’ve mattered little because Weir had a four-footer for birdie to end the match. Only, of course, the normally reliable Canadian missed. And the story would end like all those Tiger Woods stories end. Woods hit one of th
