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Paying tribute to the King Woods hopes to honor Palmer with win at Bay Hill
Posted: Friday March 17, 2000 05:50 PM
Tiger Woods has some extra motivation to win at Bay Hill Invitational, where Arnold Palmer is the host. Woods has already won the GTE Byron Nelson Classic and Jack Nicklaus' Memorial Tournament. A victory at this week would like to make a clean sweep of the only PGA Tour events headed by one of the game's all-time greats. "I think it would be even more special to win Arnold's tournament," said Woods, who lives just up the road from Bay Hill, "just because of the fact that he is The King." Showdown on the LPGAWell, after a year-long cease fire, Karrie Webb and Annika Sorenstam are once again engaged in pitched battle. Both have 19 career victories but more importantly, having seen Webb dominate women's golf in 1999 and start this year with four straight wins, Sorenstam is gunning to get back her old No. 1 spot. "I want to do whatever it takes," said Sorenstam, who had problems with her putting and level of desire last year. Next week's Nabisco Championship, the first LPGA major of the year, should be a great showdown. Premier putterWho is the best putter on the PGA Tour? Some of the candidates commonly mentioned are Brad Faxon, Jim Furyk and Loren Roberts. But Rich Fehr is currently leading the tour with a per round average of 26.86 -- a full putt lower than Pete Jordan's next best average, and it's no fluke.In 1998, Fehr's year end average of 27.17 putts per round was the lowest ever recorded on the PGA Tour. Last of a legendHas Sam Snead played his last competitive round of golf?That was the speculation after the 87-year-old Slammer teamed with Bob Goalby to post a best-ball 71 in the Demaret division of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf on Tuesday. Snead wasn't making any comment except to admit that his eyesight has greatly deteriorated and his right shoulder has never healed properly since being damaged in a car accident several years ago. "I hope I come back next year," Snead said. By the way, the field of 84 at the Legends combined for 778 official victories on the PGA Tour. And if 91-year-old Paul Runyan hadn't had to withdraw because of illness, that number would have been an even 800. Sports Illustrated senior writer Jaime Diaz covers the golf beat and appears regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated and CNN's Pro Golf Weekly.
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