{"id":881,"date":"2005-07-31T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/vijay_says_listen_up_tiger_at_buick_open\/"},"modified":"2005-07-31T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T00:23:13","slug":"vijay_says_listen_up_tiger_at_buick_open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/vijay_says_listen_up_tiger_at_buick_open","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Says &#8220;Listen Up, Tiger&#8221; at Buick Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/b\/imgs\/pga\/tiger_woods_listening.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Tiger Woods\" class=\"bordered\" \/>Vijay Singh simply had too big a lead and Tiger Woods simply played the first eight holes horribly on Saturday and Sunday. End result? A comfortable four-stroke victory by world #2 Vijay Singh, his fourth of the year (and his second consecutive Buick Open). Singh is now the only player to win the Buick Open three times.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger could only listen (screen capture credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hookedongolfblog.com\/?p=346\" title=\"Hooked on Golf\" class=\"external external_icon\">Tony @ HOG<\/a>) as Vijay withstood a back-nine 30 by the world&#8217;s highest-ranked player. That 30 included a bogey at the last when he nearly missed the fairway to the right &#8211; that is, the adjacent fairway &#8211; and couldn&#8217;t get up and down from a greenside bunker.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOf course, &#8220;what if&#8221; plagues Vijay Singh&#8217;s mind, too. He&#8217;s the only player &#8211; aside from Tiger Woods &#8211; to finish in the top six of each of the first three majors (T5 Masters, T6 U.S. Open, T5 British Open). Statistically, Vijay Singh was last or next-to-last in each of those tournaments. Oh what could have been&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>New Never Compromise mallet putter in hand (Vijay says he found it laying around in his garage), Vijay putted confidently all week, holing putts from everywhere throughout the week. This tournament marked the beginning of Vijay&#8217;s tear last year, winning six of eight tournaments, and it&#8217;s safe to say that although <strong>Tiger is Back, Vijay never Left<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Who among the TV viewers enjoyed watching Singh less than Mr. Woods, however? When Tiger is in contention &#8211; or even ten shots back as he was at one point today &#8211; the broadcast is all the more compelling. Tiger nearly got to within two shots of the Fijian before Vijay birdied 16 and Tiger bogeyed 18. Woods on Saturday got up-and-down from a water hazard for a birdie at the 16th, holing a 60-foot putt in the process. His back-to-back eagles on Friday (followed by two birdies) were exciting. And the little run he made on Sunday made things interesting, too, but ended in a fizzle with that wayward drive and bogey at the last.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Johnson played well and managed to best Singh by one on Sunday, but started the day five back. Dudley Hart and Robert Allenby played Leaderboard Jumping, moving from well down to 5th and 4th with a 66 and a 65, respectively. Jim Furyk had a solid tournament, finishing up T6 with four rounds under par. Sean O&#8217;Hair, rookie sensation, did the same and managed a T8. Chris DiMarco finally found his game again, finishing T12, but stumbled in the final round to a +1 73. And hey, lookee there: Larry Mize, <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/trap_five\/worst_players_to_have_won_a_major\/\" title=\"Worst Players to Have Won a Major\">one of the worst players to have won a major<\/a>, finished T18 at -13.<\/p>\n<p>If my calculations are correct, Tiger will retain more than a four-point cushion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialworldgolfranking.com\/\" title=\"Official World Golf Ranking\" class=\"external external_icon\">Official World Golf Ranking<\/a>. I expect the totals to about about 16.43 to 12.11. Ernie Els should slip to about 9.21 or so (and will fall much further this year <a href=\"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/pga\/els_down_for_surgery\/\" title=\"Ernie Els Out with Injury\">due to his injury<\/a>).<\/p>\n<pre>Pos   Player               Tot    R1    R2    R3    R4    Tot\n1     Vijay Singh          -24    65    66    63    70    264\nT2    Tiger Woods          -20    71    61    70    66    268\nT2    Zach Johnson         -20    68    66    65    69    268\n4     Robert Allenby       -18    70    65    70    65    270\n5     Dudley Hart          -17    68    66    71    66    271\nT6    Jeff Brehaut         -16    68    67    69    68    272\nT6    Jim Furyk            -16    66    71    67    68    272\nT8    Heath Slocum         -15    70    68    68    67    273\nT8    Richard S. Johnson   -15    69    69    67    68    273\nT8    Craig Barlow         -15    66    67    71    69    273\nT8    Sean O'Hair          -15    70    66    66    71    273\nT12   Stephen Leaney       -14    71    68    67    68    274\nT12   Daniel Chopra        -14    71    66    68    69    274\nT12   Fred Funk            -14    68    66    70    70    274\nT12   Steve Lowery         -14    69    66    68    71    274\nT12   Chris DiMarco        -14    70    65    66    73    274\nT12   Geoff Ogilvy         -14    66    71    65    72    274<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods twice made a weekend charge, but it was after going +4 on the first eight holes. Vijay Singh wins easily. Is another tear in store?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vijay Says &quot;Listen Up, Tiger&quot; at Buick Open (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/pga\/vijay_says_listen_up_tiger_at_buick_open\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Vijay Says &quot;Listen Up, Tiger&quot; at Buick Open (PGA) - The Sand Trap .com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Tiger Woods twice made a weekend charge, but it was after going +4 on the first eight holes. 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