Tiger Woods turns 41 on Friday. What are you going to do to celebrate? How about plopping on the couch for a 12-hour marathon of Big Cat highlights?
Golf Channel is gladly obliging and showing you these 12 programs over the course of the day.
All times Eastern
Time | Program | Thoughts |
6 a.m. | Chronicles of a Champion Golfer | I might skip this one |
7 a.m. | 1999 PGA Championship | The Sergio Garcia one! |
8 a.m. | 2000 PGA Championship | The Bob May playoff, point and run |
9 a.m. | 2006 PGA Championship | Getting these PGAs out of the way, eh? |
10 a.m. | 2007 PGA Championship | When he shot 63 |
11 a.m. | 2000 Open Championship | The one at St. Andrews |
12 p.m. | 2005 Open Championship | The other one at St. Andrews |
1 p.m. | 2006 Open Championship | One of Chris DiMarco's many defeats |
2 p.m. | 2000 U.S. Open | Needs no introduction |
3 p.m. | 2002 U.S. Open | The one at Bethpage over Mickelson |
4 p.m. | 2008 U.S. Open | Shockingly, the last one |
5 p.m. | 1997 Masters | Epically, the first one |
That is a murderer's row of golf content. If I'm only picking three, I guess I'm going 2000 U.S. Open, 2008 U.S. Open and 1997 Masters. It's hard to leave the 2000 PGA Championship and 2000 Open off there. Man, Woods has really had some classics, hasn't he?
What would be interesting is for Golf Channel to test how these replays would do against actual lower-tier PGA Tour events. For example, what if Golf Channel showed Tiger's 2002 U.S. Open to half the country and the third round of the Sony Open live to the other half? Which would get better ratings?
Either way, this is going to be fun to tune in to on Friday as the new year approaches.