What was the PGA TOUR story of the year?
To which I answered on that radio interview that there were actually two. It started as the year for Phil Mickelson. No question – he was the story leading into the Masters and heading out of the Masters. Mickelson had won the 2005 PGA Championship at Baltusrol and arrived at the Masters with a blowout victory under his belt at the Bellsouth Classic. Mickelson won at Augusta, but blew it at the U.S. Open and was never heard from again in the same conversation. Mickelson was definitely a huge story this year. Tiger Woods is the other story. Obviously he’s reaffirmed our belief in him as the world’s best player. After losing at Augusta and missing the cut at Winged Foot, people tied his misfortune to the health of his father. After Earl passed, Tiger mourned and regrouped to play arguably the best golf of his career. Woods is back on top with an exclamation point. And we are left – regardless of what happens the rest of the year – thinking about Tiger and his dominance as the most import
