An exhibition in the center of December – with no main championships nor substantial specialist situations anyplace in sight – just about turned into the golfing match of the 12 months.
At the PNC Championship in Orlando on Sunday, John Daly and his son, John Daly II, completed at 27 below in a scramble format to conquer Tiger Woods and his son, Charlie, by two strokes. Both equally groups shot 57 in the ultimate spherical, and Workforce Woods approximately pulled off a single of the much more improbable wins of the previous couple years by closing with 11 birdies in their past 12 holes.
Just after shooting 10-below 62 on Saturday in Spherical 1, Group Woods started off birdie-birdie-eagle on Sunday to go 4 below on the day through the 1st a few holes. 3 pars adopted before they began filling it up like Steph Curry and Klay Thompson on a mid-April night in San Francisco. The father-son duo birdied at No. 7, No. 8 and No. 9 to acquire a entrance 9 of 29 and some momentum heading to the back.
They ham-and-egged their way to six straight birdies to commence the next 9 as effectively, hitting most of their approaches near to the pin and building every one just one that was not. But before long it grew to become crystal clear that Charlie and his dad had been just one of the handful of teams with a authentic likelihood of successful the 24th version of this event in a week when just demonstrating up was worthy of celebration.
The serious present commenced when, even while dad’s recreation appeared improbably superior all through the two-day run, Charlie took more than late. On No. 16, the more youthful Woods strike his approach proper of a appropriate pin with water on the proper facet. He manufactured that putt for a 10th birdie in a row. Then, he took his tee shot on the par-3 17th left of a left pin with drinking water on the left. He built that putt as very well, giving the Woods relatives eleven straight birdies, a new match report, with a par-5 coming at the very last.
The famed duo in purple and black walked up the 18th collectively – a rarity in a 7 days in which Tiger was primarily in a cart to preserve the well being of his proper leg – but made par there to end with that 57 and 25-below overall, which they knew wouldn’t be plenty of. Tiger mentioned afterward that they thought they’d have to birdie…