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Tiger Week: Players Who Finished Second to Tiger Woods Most Often

By Tim Letcher

PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 16: Tiger Woods of the United States plays a shot on the 12th hole during the final round of the Genesis Invitational on February 16, 2020 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Tim Bradbury/Getty Images)
PACIFIC PALISADES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 16: Tiger Woods of the United States plays a shot on the 12th hole during the final round of the Genesis Invitational on February 16, 2020 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Tim Bradbury/Getty Images) /
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PALM HARBOR, FL – MARCH 16: Jim Furyk hits a tee shot on the 3rd hole during the final round of the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club on March 16, 2014 in Palm Harbor, Florida. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
PALM HARBOR, FL – MARCH 16: Jim Furyk hits a tee shot on the 3rd hole during the final round of the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club on March 16, 2014 in Palm Harbor, Florida. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) /

Jim Furyk

Like Davis Love III, Jim Furyk has been the runner-up to Tiger on four occasions. The first time came at the 2001 WGC-NEC Invitational at Firestone Country Club, an event that Woods would end up winning eight times. In the 2001 version, Woods and Furyk were tied at the end of regulation, and Tiger would end up winning in a playoff.

At the 2006 Buick Open, Woods was really on his game. Tiger shot 24-under par for the week to claim his 50th PGA Tour title. Furyk was again the runner-up, three strokes behind Woods at the end of the week.

Furyk kept challenging Woods at events he has won multiple times, and he kept coming up short. The next time came at the 2009 Memorial Tournament, where Woods has won five times. Furyk went toe-to-toe with Woods at Muirfield Village that week, only to come up one shot short in the end.

Furyk would make another run at Woods later in 2009. Well, sort of. At the BMW Championship, another one of Woods’ best events, Furyk and Marc Leishman came in second and saw Tiger in amazing form as he shot 19-under par and dominated the field to the tune of an eight-shot win.

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