THE BLOGTiger too strong for his own good!
ATLANTA (AP) - Zach Johnson and Sergia Garcia were finishing out the ninth hole at East Lake when someone else’s ball came skidding through the green.
Guess who was too strong for his own good? Tiger Woods.
On his way to a dominating eight-stroke win in the Tour Championship, Woods also violated one of golf’s basic no-no’s Sunday by hitting into the group ahead of him.
It happened at the par-5 ninth to the penultimate twosome. Garcia needed extra time after knocking his second shot into the adjacent first fairway. Johnson also took three shots to reach the green on the 600-yard hole.
Coming up right behind them was Woods, whose booming drive still left him 286 yards from the flag. He went ahead and played his second shot with a 5-wood, aiming for a bunker. Instead, he wound up reaching the green that Garcia and Johnson were still playing.
“Obviously, he didn’t think he’d be able to get it there,” said Garcia, who salvaged a par. “Somehow he did. It was no big deal.”
It appeared to affect Johnson, who three-putted from 29 feet for a bogey at a hole that provided plenty of birdies. But he dismissed the breakdown in etiquette.
“I had no idea whose ball it was,” said Johnson, who tied for second with Mark Calcavecchia. “I figured it was Tiger’s. But it didn’t get to me. I just lost my focus a little bit.”
Woods apologized to Garcia and Johnson.
“I didn’t think I could hit it that far,” the winner said.
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