July 26, 2000
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Woods eyes golf’s triple crown
A ssociated P ress
Only four players had won the career
G rand Slam until T ig er W oods
c o m p le te d th e c y c le w ith an
unprecedented romp around the Old
Course to win the British Open. Next
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exclusive company.
Ben Hogan was the only player who
won three major championships in
one year, in 1953. That’s whatawaits
W oods next month, when he makes
his first visit to Valhalla GolfClub for
the PGA Championship.
“I ’ve always said you would like to
have your game peak at four different
times a year,” W oods said. “That’s
something you always hope for and
plan for. To actually have it happen is
a different story. Hopefully, my game
will be ready for the PGA.”
Everyone else better hope he gets
lost on his way to Kentucky.
W inning majorchampionships is not
an issue with Woods. Lately, the
only drama is what kind ofrecord will
fall. In the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach,
he became the first player to finish in
double digits below par (12 under),
broke a 138-year-o,d record with his
15-stroke victory and tied the U.S.
Open scoring record at 282.
A month later, Woods arrived at the
home o f golf and made even more
history.
He won the British Open with a 19-
under 269, a record score at St.
Andrews and the lowest score in
relatio n to par ever in a m ajor
ch am p io n sh ip . His eig h t-stro k e
victory over Ernie Els and Thomas
B jom was the widest in 87 years.
Two majors — one the toughest test
in golf, the other the oldest. W oods
won them by a combined 23 strokes,
Two reasons I quit smoking.
Tiger Woods cradles the Claret Jug after winning the British Open G olf
championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Sunday, July
23, 2000.
playing 31 strokes below par.
“In one way, it is incredible to watch
a guy play so much better than the
rest o f the world,” said Els, a runner-
up in all three majors this year. “ In
another way, it’s tough to sit down
here and talk about him every time.
“I might have to get used to it, but I
guess that’s the way it goes.”
That ’ s the way it’s gone for just about
everybody this year. Aside from two
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bad holes in the first round o f the
Masters — a double bogey and triple
bogey — Woods might very well be
going for the Grand Slam in one year.
He didn’t have anything that remotely
resembled trouble in the British Open.
The Old Course has 112 pot bunkers,
but the only tim e W oods even
glimpsed any o f them was when he
watched chief challenger David Duval
flail away four times to get out o f the
Road Hole bunker on No. 17 in the
final round Sunday.
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lose 10 percent o f their paychecks in the 2001 -02 season.
“ I think players are going to be really upset when they learn about it, said
O rlando’s Pat Garrity, who was elected Tuesday as the union’s secretary-
treasurer. “Ten percent is a pretty big chunk.”
The 10 percent giveback is known as the escrow tax, which the players agreed
to during negotiations to end the 1998-99 lockout.
The tax would be triggered onoy if players received more than 55 percent o f
basketball-related income. But projections show the players will receive 64
percent o f such income in the upcoming season.
Collectively, the players will be returning more than $ 150 million to the owners
in 2001-02. The tax will stay in effect forthe 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons under
current basketball-income projections, meaning the players will fork over close
to a half-billion dollars by the time the six-year collective bargaining agreement
expires.
“It’s not really something people are thinking about,” Garrity said, “But the
comfort is that the alternative was a hard salary cap, which wouldn ’ t have been
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