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Tiger
And Titleist Win Again
Tiger Woods created a major slice of history when he won the
82nd USPGA Championship at Valhalla and in the process he
made it another great day for
Titleist because the champion won his fifth Major title with
14 of their clubs in his bag.
Woods has made a habit of setting new standards and in the
steaming heat at Valhalla he achieved a few more with a sensational
extra time victory over
the brave Bob May. It was a victory that made Woods the first
golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three of the world's
four Major titles in one calendar year. The 18 under par aggregate
that got him into the play-off total at the end of the regulation
72 holes also created a new record for the USPGA Championship
and just for good measure Woods also became the first man
to successfully defend the title since the USPGA changed from
a stroke play to a match play format in 1958.
He now heads into next year's Masters at Augusta National
with a realistic
chance of becoming the first man in history to hold all four
Major titles at
the same time and it is not something you would bet against
after a
performance at Valhalla that did not quite reach the heights
of his triumphs
at the US Open at Pebble Beach or The Open at St Andrews but
was still just
enough to defy a marvellous challenge from May.
Woods is currently dominating the game like no other golfer
since Jack
Nicklaus and he is doing so with the help of a bag full of
Titleist clubs.
Just as he did at both Pebble Beach and St Andrews, the irrepressible
Woods,
tested to the limits by May, achieved his USPGA success using
a Titleist
Titanium 975D driver, a Titleist Pro Trajectory fairway metal,
Titleist
forged prototype irons, Vokey design sand and lob wedges and
a Scotty
Cameron Pro Platinum putter.
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