Alex Hay was pure class he was. A standard to measure by whe it comes to golf announcing. To be fair Same w/ Peter Alliss, Ken Brown, Mark James, Sam Torrence, etc…and the whole BBC golf crew. So understated. They weren’t interested in spewing statistics the whole time. They’re style was much more organic. More sophisticated.
This was the year that Woods was gonna win four in the same Calendar year, majors that is. And then that storm rolled in and it was over. The guy was in position and had the first two majors already in his pocket. He battled out there but the weather was just too much. I remember this like it was yesterday.
@Craig Kennedy I remember him putting everything in every shot, they were just playing in crazy windy rainy conditions, the golfing gods said no, there will be no calendar year slams, not in 2002, anyway. There were lots of crazy numbers out there that Saturday.
Thank you for posting this. From what I have read this is one of the worst rounds weather wise played in the modern era. Love the fact you post complete rounds.
I worked as a greenside scorer for Unisys on the 11th hole that afternoon and was soaked to the skin, freezing cold. Mark O'Meara and Tiger Woods got to the 11th and one of them (can't remember which) rattled a shot under our scoreboard tower so we were famous for five minutes. Early on the morning of the last day a member of the Royal Family (he shall remain nameless) arrogantly ignored protocol and walked straight over our green. It was left to his CPO to explain to us who he was, no apology.
@@DanielSong39 I mean it wasn’t his to lose but he could have posted a very tough number, in any case the fans actually lost it for him by walking on his ball when it was only a few yards off the fairway. Sure he should have kept it in play but for that ball to be lost almost seemed beyond belief
@@DanielSong39 didn’t Romero hit into a gorse bush? That’s pretty normal, Paul Casey did that to end his chances against Louis Oosthuizen in 2010 for example. But to lose your ball the way Evans did in 02, just paces off the fairest at that late stage in the proceeding, is something absolutely unbelievable and is almost inconceivable.
Van De Velde numbered days of commentating on the Open for BBC - odd listening to him comment on how to not make more than a bogey on the holes after he threw his chance away ...
I know the scoring conditions were tough. I believe the average score was about 76.5. However, only 3 players shot higher than Tiger did in round 3. I think it was probably a combination of him playing in the absolute worst conditions of the day, at least for a while, and then just having a bad day. He couldn’t recover. He did shoot 6 under 65 on Sunday though.
Matt, I think it was a situation where Woods caught the absolute worst part of the weather, and I think he tried to do too much in the rain, and like you said he bounced back in round 4 with a very good round, I think we were seeing Woods at his apex, from 2000 to about mid 2003, I think there was an injury in there and he kind of leveled off, but for consistent absolute brilliance, this stretch here was probably the best that sport has ever seen, and the US Open at Pebble Beach was the greatest performance at that level, the US Open, that I have ever witnessed. Wow.
