Breaking: Tiger Woods Is Very Good at Golf, J.B. Holmes Agrees

In retrospect, you have to figure Tiger Woods was just trying add a little No. 1 vs. No. 16 seed excitement the proceedings. Eldrick hit his very first shot of the Accenture Match Play Championship out of bounds, and things only got worse from there.

He was three down through five, battled to within one midway through the round, only to go three down with five to play. One of the best amateur match-play players in the world, Woods hasn't had the same success on the professional level. That's all relative, of course, but when you're expected to win -- and not just win, but do it in convincing fashion -- every time you tee it up, this somehow becomes noteworthy.

Anyway, Woods, who's seemingly accomplished everything in golf, managed something new: he had never fallen three holes behind and come back to win in match play as a professional. Until yesterday.



I don't know where this ranks on the "list of amazing things Tiger's done that no one else could pull off," but it's up there somewhere. Given the format and that we're still early in the season, this doesn't compare with his '97 Masters victory, or his '00 U.S. Open blowout at Pebble Beach, or even his improbable 1996 Amateur title.

But such performances never get old. Well, unless you're Steve Scott or J.B. Holmes.

Hat tip: FanIQ