Roundup: Casey Pulls Off Valspar Win, Tiger Finishes Second
/Steve DiMeglio leads with Tiger in his USA Today game story, but quickly turns to Paul Casey's rewrite of the fairytale script.
Doug Ferguson in his AP gamer says a long victory drought was broken...Paul Casey's. But you have to love Casey, one of golf's best interviews, openly acknowledging the joy brought by merely sharing leaderboard space with Woods.
Bob Harig recounts the final day at Innisbrook Tiger's quotes about not playing the par-5s better stands out and the likely difference between second and a win.
Jason Sobel has no doubt Tiger will win again.
Golfweek's Dan Kilbridge focuses on Casey's remarks about the joys of winning as an old guy in a young man's game.
Alex Kirshner of SB Nation has the roundup on Patrick Reed's last hole, uh, what's the word I'm going for here...uh...miscalculation. Sadly his first shot is not posted anywhere officially but you can see it in the Twitter replies. For now.
As Rex Hoggard reports for GolfChannel.com, even Casey was rooting for Tiger.
“I actually thought he was going to win today before the round started. I thought it was just teed up beautifully for him,” said Casey, who birdied three consecutive holes starting at the 11th and scrambled for pars at the three closing holes on his way to a 6-under 65 and a 10-under total.
Karen Crouse of the New York Times on caddie Joe LaCava finally getting to see signs of the old Tiger, and his bosses praise for his work.
Casey explained what all of the 17th tee discussion was about and Hoggard reported on a mistaken yardage rectified in time.
Some of the more important Tweets, starting with Tiger's.
The tour did a roundup of celebrity Tweets and other excitement over Tiger's return to contention.
Highlights, both of the round four variety and Tiger's putt on 17.