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"[quote]A win at Sawgrass ought to answer some of those questions. "He's too good not to play well here," LaCava said. "He should be in contention a lot more here."
Said Brandt Snedeker, who played with Woods during the first two rounds: "From what I saw, he was flushing it, and was in control of every part of his game. He's playing incredible golf right now. As players, we can tell when a guy is flushing it all the time. He has an innate ability to flush it all the time."
The victory was the 78th of his PGA Tour career and came in his 300th start. As if sensing milestones, Woods also won his 100th start and his 200th start.
Woods has never won four tournaments on the PGA Tour this early in the year and the only time he had done so by June was when he captured the Memorial in both 2000 and 2001. Of course, in each of those years, he won major championships, which will undoubtedly be the focus with the U.S. Open looming next month.
More important to Woods, he seems in command, in control. The rules controversy at the Masters overshadowed the fact that he was in the mix, despite a two-shot penalty that resulted in a triple-bogey. He has now won three of his past four starts, with the miss Masters mixed in.
Here, he overcame a double-bogey, as well as that pressure-packed scene at the 16th and 17th holes, where the tournament swung in his favor.
"That's what this place is about," Wittenberg said. "You can love it or hate that last stretch, but I think the best thing you can do is kind of embrace it."
Woods did just that, taking it on and seemingly enjoying every moment.
