You didn’t have to be a rocket engineer Sunday at the Players Championship to figure it would all come down to Sergio and Tiger in a high-stakes, late Sunday showdown of apocalyptic proportions and career-defining import.
What nobody saw coming was how bitterly it would end when a game García, still tied for the lead with Woods, dumped two balls in the water on the now-even-more-infamous par-3 17th for the quadruple bogey that handed Woods his second victory in this, the PGA Tour’s richest event.
It was also Woods’ fourth victory of the year and serves, for now, as the last word in a blood feud that spiraled out of control one day earlier, complete with Zapruder-like film of a Woods-García dispute that defined a well-documented wild Saturday.
For that matter, this Players comprised a wild week that began with a Wednesday lawsuit filed against the Tour by a misguided ingrate named Vijay Singh. Then a redheaded, non-cigar-smoking American named Castro got everybody’s attention with a Thursday 63 that tied the course record.
Saturday, García thought Woods unnecessarily distracted him on the second hole while the two were paired in the final group. Tiger saw it otherwise. There was postround name-calling and no handshake until Sunday morning’s conclusion of the round. They won’t be attending any of the same parties anytime soon.
Meanwhile, Woods will now be a prohibitive favorite to win the U.S. Open at historic Merion next month near Philadelphia. And if he keeps the head cover on his driver, it’s hard right now to imagine anybody beating him.
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