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Hindsight

The best of The Open: Tiger enters the record books in 2000

Tiger Woods misses this year’s Open Championship through injury, but his first win back in 2000 remains in the memory.

BEFORE ALL THE late-night automobile mishaps, marital woes and knee knacks, Tiger Woods was very good at golf indeed.

He may be absent from this year’s Open Championship but it would be wrong not to salute another one of the greatest players that ever lived.

At the age of just 24, Woods won the first of his three Open Championship at St. Andrew’s in 2000. Taking victory by a massive eight strokes, he set the record for the lowest score to par (-19) in the history of Major tournaments.

He also became the youngest golfer to achieve a Career Grand Slam. Which was nice.

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