Tiger Woods Is Just Screwing with People at This Point

Tiger Woods was three strokes down with five holes to play to some cat named J.B. Holmes at the Accenture Match Play Championship. Naturally, he won one-up.

Woods was 3 down with five holes to play when he holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 14th. Then came Holmes’ lone mistake down the stretch, a three-putt from behind the 15th that allowed Woods to lag his 18-footer for birdie, and he was walking to the hole when it dropped, charging up the gallery.

Then came a 20-foot birdie on the 16th to square the match, followed by a 35-foot eagle to complete his amazing rally.

And when Holmes missed an 8-foot birdie on the final hole, Woods had escaped with a 1-up victory.

“You’re playing the best player in the world, 3 up with five to play,” Holmes said. “I just said, ‘Don’t do anything stupid. Make him beat you.’ And he did. What do you do?”

Tiger might as well just start putting himself in these sorts of holes, just to see if he can play out of them. Like, at the Masters he could play the entire first round using just a five iron. Then at the U.S. Open he could play left-handed. Just some stuff to make things interesting, that’s all.