It had not transcended until now, but just days before his big duel against Phil Mickelson in the $9 million challenge, Tiger Woods scored a hole in one, something he had not celebrated since he got the previous one 20 years earlier!
The Californian former world number one completed the feat during an informal round with his friend Fred Couples at the Madison Club in La Quinta, California. Woods used a 5-iron to reach the 2nd hole, a 190-meter par 3 on the course near where he grew up.
Aside from Couples, Tiger had one other eyewitness when he teed off: his son Charlie.
Woods’ most famous hole-in-one had thousands of witnesses on the course itself and occurred on the par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale during the 1997 Phoenix Open, just months before his historic first Masters victory. His last hole-in-one on the American Tour came the following year at the 1998 International.
The fact that in two decades he had failed to make a hole-in-one is incomprehensible even to Woods himself, as he told ESPN. “Some of the best years of my career and I never made one,” he said.
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