All Rights Reserved.At Valhalla, the 24-year-old Woods handled the field with the same ease he’d shown at Pebble Beach and St. Andrews – all except for May. “If I miss and he makes, he’s three up with three to go, and I’m not looking very good. 16 to begin the first use of the three-hole, aggregate-score playoff in the PGA Championship. In the 2000 PGA Championship, journeyman Bob May took it to Tiger Woods at the peak of the Big Cat’s career. After winning the U.S. Open and the Open by a combined 23 strokes, Tiger Woods needed extra holes at Valhalla Golf Club to edge Bob May and become the first to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy in consecutive years since Denny Shute in 1937, joining Ben Hogan as the only men to win three pro majors in a season.Tiger made birdies on Nos.

To step up there and make a 15-footer with everything on the line – that’s a big putt.’”Twenty years later, the brilliance of what transpired in the shadows of the iconic spires at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, lives on like the Norse legend of Valhalla, the Hall of the Gods for which the course takes its name. To learn more, When Tiger strode into Louisville that hot, humid week in late August, he had already won six times in 2000 and was the prohibitive favorite. “Granted, there have been some great ones, but this one was up there.

There must surely be a limiting factor to a game where you hit a ball towards a little hole, while taking into account wind direction and terrain. The playoff occurred on holes 16, 17 and 18. “It was a very special day to have two guys competing at a level you don’t see unless you have the concentration heightened to where it was.” 7 and 8 and the two were tied going to the back nine, where they put on a display of golf worthy of a place in the Hall of the Gods. The game features both the mouse-swinging (TrueSwing) control method and a welcome return of the dated but popular three-click system. Tiger and May set a PGA Championship record with their -18 under par finishes to that point. “This was one memorable battle,” Woods said.

That’s when the fireworks began.The 2000 PGA Championship was the exclamation point at the end of golf’s greatest season. At Valhalla, Tiger was both human and superhuman.Ahead by one, May hit second shot on the par-4 to 6 feet. PGA Championship Golf begs to differ. His confident stroke sent the ball rolling and as it neared the hole Woods started after it in a jaunty stride, pointing his index finger as if to command, “Don’t you dare miss.” The 31-year-old former junior golf sensation from Woods neck of the woods in Southern California who had yet to win on the PGA Tour would not back down.“The one shot that meant the most to me, with everything going on, was the putt on 15,” Woods said. Woods made two bogeys in the first six holes while May carded two birdies and a bogey to grab a two-stroke lead. Playing in the last group with May, Woods started the final round with a one-stroke lead over May and Scott Dunlap, who faded early. PGA Championship Golf 2000 is a video game published in 2000 on Windows by Sierra On-Line, Inc.. Both of us shot 31 on the back nine with no bogeys. The 2000 PGA Championship was the 82nd PGA Championship, held August 17–20 at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.It was the second time for the event at Valhalla, which hosted four years earlier in 1996. However, PGACG is a very solid and engaging game, with more options than the Muller Corner range and adequate ball physics to boot It's not in the same league as Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf, but it's still worth a look. The 2000 PGA Championship was the exclamation point at the end of golf’s greatest season. But, as the PGA has done for Woods several times, he was served up a surprise. If you get bored with the courses provided, there's a course designer so you can have a go at creating your own holes.

PGA Championship Golf 2000 is currently the unrivaled king of golf sims. Woods, who shot 67, birdied seven of the last 12 holes of regulation and the first hole of the playoff. Seventeen times he was in the top 10 and in the top 25 in all 20 tournaments he played.2017 PGA Champion Justin Thomas Captures Second Career PGA of America Player of the Year AwardPGA of America Inks Extension with Michelob ULTRA as Official Beer of the PGA ChampionshipTee it up in Charleston for the 2021 PGA Championship Keep up with all the news, scores and highlights. In order to master the game, you can use the practice ranges from one of the seven PGA courses available to practice driving, chipping and putting, as well as attempting any of the 18 holes.

As he has so many times, Woods made it.But in completing his triple at the PGA, Woods found May more like Alydar to Affirmed in 1978.

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May was on no one’s list of contenders.Woods and May tussled for 21 holes that Sunday and combined to make 15 birdies. The pair tied the 12The two produced one of the most dramatic finishes in the history of major championship golf, finishing 72 holes at 18-under-par 270, five strokes clear of third place finisher Thomas Bjorn. That’s not too bad.”To put it in horse racing terms, in winning the U.S. Open by 15 strokes and the Open by eight, Woods was like Secretariat in 1973, who capped the Triple Crown with a 31-length victory in the Belmont Stakes. For Woods, it meant he held the scoring record in all four majors and had won three majors by a record score in nine weeks. After winning the U.S. Open and the Open by a combined 23 strokes, Tiger Woods needed extra holes at Valhalla Golf Club to edge Bob May and become the first to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy in consecutive years since Denny Shute in 1937, joining Ben Hogan as the only men to win three pro …