The 42 year old ex-champ seems to have got back flashes of his past fantastic game skills…
A long victory drought on the PGA Tour finally ended Sunday, just not the one a raucous crowd was expecting.
Paul Casey closed with a 6-under 65 and won the Valspar Championship, but only after watching from the locker room as Tiger Woods came up one putt short of forcing a playoff. It was the closest Woods has come to winning in nearly five years….
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Woods looked closer than ever to winning in his remarkable return from fusion surgery on his lower back last April. Each week has been a little better. He has been a factor on Sunday the last two tournaments, and a gallery that stood 10-deep around just about every green could sense it.
He just couldn’t deliver after a two-putt birdie on the par-5 opening hole…..
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