Easy Tiger; the World No 1 Hasn't Had His Troubles to Seek Recently and Ernie Els has the Chance to Take Over at the Top of the Rankings. Can the South African Make the Final Leap? Alan Campbell Reports
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THE last time the Open Championship was held at Royal Troon, in 1997, Ernie Els was 27 years old and arrived as the US Open champion. Tiger Woods was 21, and three months earlier had won his first Major as a professional, the US Masters at Augusta. As the 20th century drew to a close, the South African and the American were the future of world golf.
Fast forward to 2004 and Woods is now 28, Els 34. Until recently the intervening years have been much easier and more prolific for the younger of the two superstars. Although he didn't win his second Major until August 1999, the reconstruction work Woods had done on his swing with Butch Harmon led to an unprecedented winning run of four successive Majors, and eight in total, by June 2002.See the full content of this document
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Easy Tiger; the World No 1 Hasn't Had His Troubles to Seek Recently and Ernie Els has the Chance to Take Over at the Top of the Rankings. Can the South African Make the Final Leap? Alan Campbell Reports
Els, by contrast, went 61 months between his 1997 US Open success, his second Major title, and the 2002 Open Championship, his third. Like the rest of the world's top golfers, there was a period from 2000 through the first half of 2002 when his spirit appeared to have been broken by Woods' superiority and relentless run of success; not until this year have Els, P...
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