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The ballad of Tiger Woods

By DJ Gallo
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Tiger Woods' victory at the PGA Championship was a sure thing. I knew it. You knew it. We all knew it. But then he lost. It was a shock that brought to mind the surprising failure of another superstar from the past: Ernest Thayer's mighty Casey. "Tiger at the Tee" The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Hazeltine crowd that day; Tiger led by two, with but one more round to play, And then when Padraig took an eight, and more did much the same, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game ...

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