Tiger Quietly Creeping Up on Cejka in Players Championship
It’s almost like we all just expect Tiger Woods to be out there dominating every day he plays golf. If he only shoots a 2 under, then we all ask, what went wrong? But as anyone watching the 2009 Players Championship will notice that sometimes slow and steady wins the race.
photo: Heathcote
Alex Cejka, who fled Czechoslovakia at the age of nine with his father, and isn’t afraid of the color pink is keeping his cool, and this might just be his tournament to win tomorrow. But when you have someone like Tiger Woods stalking you ( and right beside you — Cejka and Woods are the final pairing tomorrow), it could be anyone’s tournament to win, and when I say anyone’s, I mean Tiger’s.
Then again, Cejka does have a five stroke lead, and that just by shooting par today. Luckily for Cejka, just about everyone else fell apart around him and
...Poulter showing us which way his score is going.
nary a challenger was to be seen, once Ian Poulter ran into trouble around the turn with three bogeys on 8, 9, and 11. His 75 still has him in second, but along with Tiger, there are four other guys sitting 5 strokes behind Cejka, all at 6 under: Retief Goosen, Ben Crane, Jonathan Byrd and Henrik Stenson.
Judging by the utterly brutal way TPC Sawgrass played today, Cejka would have to blow up tomorrow or someone (Tiger, for example) in that tie for 2nd is going to really have to turn on some Daniel Chopra-in-Round-Two-minus-the-last-2-holes magic to take the Championship. The low round today was only 4 under (Kenny Perry and Woody Austin, thank you), so a 5 stroke lead may not only be historic, but it may be enough, if Cejka can shoot around par on Sunday.
And oh my gosh, Lorena Ochoa shot a 75 today to tumble from her two-day lead at the Michelob Ultra Open at Kingsmill. Lindsey Wright and Cristie Kerr shot a 64 and a 66, respectively, to go into Sunday’s final round co-leading at 15 under. In-Kyung Kim is 14 under, and the other Kim, Song-Hee is 13 under. Ochoa fell back into a tie for 5th with Wendy Ward and Natalie Gulbis.
And in Italy, at the BMW Italian Open, check it…John Daly shot yet another 69, which moves him from a tie for 16th into a tie for 11th. That’s a whole lotta Miller Light.
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