[outdoorsman43]

Wow, just goes to show that no one can perfect the game of golf and even the all-time greats are going to be off their game sometimes.


TURNBERRY, Scotland -- According to the Rolex clock located on the huge Pittsburgh Steelers-yellow scoreboard just to the side of the 18th green, Tiger Woods' 2009 Open Championship ended at exactly 7:15 p.m. local time Friday. That's when his birdie chip from just beyond the back of the green decided it had better things to do than roll into the cup.

Instead, it came to a stop 3 feet short of the pin and, just like that, Woods' Open was history. Or, if Chicago White Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson were doing the Turnberry play-by-play, "He gone."

Oh, sure, it wasn't official official. If enough players still on the course shot John Daly's weight, or fell into the Firth of Clyde, or were kidnapped by aliens, then, yeah, Woods could sneak under the cut line. But they didn't, and he didn't. His rounds of 71 on Thursday and 74 on Friday -- putting him at 5 over par for the tournament -- got him exactly what he deserved: a jet ride back to the States.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/s...rtCat=golf