{"id":11984,"date":"2009-03-30T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/with_typical_drama_woods_caps_latest_comeback\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T14:00:34","slug":"with_typical_drama_woods_caps_latest_comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11984","title":{"rendered":"With Typical Drama, Woods Caps Latest Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tiger Woods returned to the top Sunday like some inexorable force, stalking with an almost frightening purposefulness to overtake Sean O\u2019Hair and his five-stroke lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. As has become his custom, Woods delivered the stunning coup de gr\u00c3\u00a2ce with a flourish on Bay Hill\u2019s 18th green, sinking a 15-foot putt in the heart of the hole as darkness fell.<\/p>\n<p>Just as he did a year ago, and as he did in 2001 in his second of six victories in this tournament, Woods waited to erase doubts until every shot had been hit. Then he stroked the winning putt. This time it was for a round of 67 and a five-under-par 275 total, one stroke better than O\u2019Hair, who closed with a 73.<\/p>\n<p>Woods\u2019s climb from five strokes back matched the largest comeback in his PGA Tour career. He also came back from five down at the 2000 Pebble Beach Pro-Am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/30\/sports\/golf\/30golf.html?ref=sports\">Sheesh.  I happened to catch the highlights of this victory this morning on Sportscenter.  Loved seeing that last putt. He is just a marvel to watch.  Read it all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods returned to the top Sunday like some inexorable force, stalking with an almost frightening purposefulness to overtake Sean O\u2019Hair and his five-stroke lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. As has become his custom, Woods delivered the stunning coup<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11984\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}