Editor’s note: Tiger Woods earned his fourth victory of the 2008 season, his seventh victory at Torrey Pines Golf Course and his 14th major title on Monday after a 19-hole playoff for the U.S. Open Championship with Rocco Mediate. Here are some of the e-mails PGATOUR.com received congratulating him.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — With a throbbing knee and a pounding heart, Tiger Woods made one last improbable escape Monday and won the U.S. Open in a 19-hole playoff over Rocco Mediate, his 14th career major and maybe the most amazing of them all.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — He said he didn’t want to get his butt handed to him.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — I was wrong. Don’t tell my ex-wife. The fact of the matter is that at some point I wrote an impassioned defense of the 18-hole playoff that the USGA uses to determine its U.S. Open champion. I spoke of things like equity and the magnitude of winning our nation’s most important tournament. Blah, blah, blah.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — Tiger Woods’ 14th major championship professional victory in his 46th career professional major start is second all-time to the 18 of Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus won his 14th major in his 56th professional major start at the 1975 PGA Championship and his 15th in his 67th start at the 1978 British Open, almost three years since his 14th major victory.
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Results for the 108th U.S. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course:
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He is not difficult to read. It is all there, written on his face. Good, bad or ugly, Tiger Woods rarely hides what is boiling inside.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — PGATOUR.com’s staff writers will provide continous coverage, including hole-by-hole analysis, from Monday’s playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate at the U.S. Open. The playoff begins at noon (all times ET).
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — Just for a split second early Sunday evening at Torrey Pines, it looked as if the U.S. Open trophy would go to its oldest champion of all time.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — The peace symbol is gone.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — Monday’s playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate will be the 33rd in U.S. Open history. Here are the first 32:
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — He was asked about the odds facing him on Monday morning when he takes on the No. 1 player in the world, the man with 13 major championships, including two U.S. Opens. Rocco Mediate faces Tiger Woods in an 18-hole playoff for the 108th U.S. Open title.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. — Just for a split second early Sunday evening at Torrey Pines, it looked as if the U.S. Open trophy would go to its oldest champion of all time.
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