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Remember when this was automatic? Death, taxes, Tiger, so predictable, so perfunctory.
Tiger Woods closing out 54-hole leads was akin to the sun rising in the east, a lock so solid you could bet the house as long as said homestead wasn’t underwater with a toxic mortgage.
Before the 2009 PGA Championship and someone named Y.E. Yang tilted against the ultimate windmill, Woods had never lost a 54-hole advantage in a major championship. Before the 2010 Chevron World Challenge and Graeme McDowell he’d never yielded a four-stroke, three-day advantage in any contest.
The consensus was the game’s preeminent frontrunner had lost a step on his layup and wouldn’t cast the same ominous shadow on would-be contenders as his winless drought...
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