Tiger Woods Wins US Open

On a obviously painful left knee that gave him way more trouble than he ever let on, Woods birdied the 72nd hole Sunday to force a playoff with Rocco Mediate. Woods blew a three-stroke lead with eight holes remaining in Monday’s playoff and trailed by one with three to go. The world’s No. 1-ranked player then made another birdie at the last hole to tie Mediate and force sudden death in what will go down as one of the game’s most exciting tournaments.

A par on the first extra hole, the par-4 seventh, was good enough to clinch Woods’ 14th major title as Mediate made a bogey. If you were doing some golf betting, this would have been easy money.

“I think this is probably the best ever,” Woods said. “All things considered, I don’t know how I ended up in this position, to be honest with you. It was a long week. A lot of doubt, a lot of questions going into the week. And here we are, 91 holes later.”