This weekend was the annual playing of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. The world's best golfers assembled to compete in this event. All the hype was directed at Tiger Woods.
The analysts agreed this was the year of the "Tiger". He had won all but one event he had played in this season. They (analysts) could not help but talk about Tiger winning the Grand Slam of golf. This is when a player wins all four "Majors" in the same year. Bobby Jones is the only golfer ever to do so.
The media loves building hype around Tiger. He is one of the best golfers ever but I am not ready to call him the best. History proved true again this week. Tiger has never won a major when he was trailing going into the final round. Tiger found himself in fifth place, six shots behind leader beginning the final round. He amazed the crowd with a final round score of 72. He missed puts and never really found his rhythm on Sunday. I believe he was distracted by all the hype.
Winning the Grand Slam of golf should never be mentioned until a player has won the first three majors of the season. The media desperately long for Tiger to accomplish this milestone. The media has already created a "Tiger Slam". Tiger held the four major championships over the course of two seasons. This is not a slam. I hope the golf analysts will post-pone their coronation of Tiger as the best ever until he has broken most if not all the records.
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