PGA TOUR: The biggest winners and losers of the 2018 season
He may have not won any tournaments in 2018, but Tiger did enough to give his insatiable fan base hope that he will win one in the near future. His career rejuvenation is almost unbelievable considering he hit rock bottom with a DUI arrest just over a year ago in May 2017.
What was most surprising about his season was that he played particularly well in major events. In his first major of 2018 he failed to contend in the Masters where he always plays so well, and he missed the cut in the U.S. Open after triple bogeying the first hole of the tournament. However he finished the second half of the major season in spectacular fashion by finishing in the top five in the last two majors of the year.
He looked like the Tiger of old in the PGA Championship, fist pumping as putts rolled in and sticking approach shots near the flag from all over the course. It is hard to believe, but his four round combined total of 266 strokes is his lowest in any major he has played in his career. If he could have found the fairway in the final round or if his last couple of putts that lipped out went in, he easily could have won his 15th major of his career and first since 2008.
One thing is for sure, golf is more interesting when Tiger is playing well and he looks like he is back to form after this year’s major season. He entered the season as the 668th ranked player in the world at the Hero World Challenge and after the PGA Championship he is already back to No. 26.