The 2014 Tour Sauce power rankings
Tiger Woods tops the list, of course, but some youngsters like Keegan Bradley and Jordan Spieth are nipping at his heels. Here's a huge look at the top 10.

If you aren't familiar with the term "Tour Sauce" -- or as it's more popularly known on Twitter, #TourSauce -- you should read up.
Tour Sauce is a term invented by the blog No Laying Up that references things done on a golf course that only a tour professional would ever do.
For example, if you're playing with a buddy and you chip in for eagle from 90 yards out you're probably screaming and high-fiving your buddy for 10 straight minutes.
A tour pro would never do that. He would first send his caddie to pull the flagstick because he knew he was going to make it anyway and tip his hat politely after making it.
There's also the club twirl, the wind confusion, the fixing of the spike mark on the green even though it didn't affect your putt at all, and the stopping mid-downswing on a drive so violently that you need to see a physio after your round.
The whole thing has caught on within the tour, too. Scott Langley even stamped his wedge with the phrase late in the season!
Hope @NoLayingUp is ready for some #Toursauce with a side of crowd acknowledgement this weekend. pic.twitter.com/KcQlUOoFvm
— Scott Langley (@Scott_Langley) August 28, 2014
NLU has an entire list of things Tour Sauce entails but I wanted to check in on the 2014 power rankings. Who's the sauciest of the bunch?
Let's jump in.
1. Tiger Woods: I don't care if he didn't play this season. He's the GOAT. As No Laying Up said in our recent podcast, he basically invented Tour Sauce.

2. Rory McIlroy: He's taken the club twirling goods from Tiger and put them on a whole new level in 2014. Nobody does it better than those two.
McIlroy has also perfected the "just banged it 365 down the middle with a slight cut to avoid the water but I'm going to pick up my tee as part of my follow through and not even watch it land" drive. It's majestic.
This was a big year for his sauce game.

3. Justin Rose: I think Rose is my favorite sneaky name on this list. You don't immediately think Tour Sauce when you think of Rose but outside of those top two guys it would be hard to find somebody who sprays more of it than Rose.
This is basically the perfect example of what I'm talking about:

My favorite Rose "Sauce" moment came at the U.S. Open, though. He lets go of the club as part of his follow through. That's next level stuff.

4. Bubba Watson: Watson is more of an unintentional Tour Sauce guy.
He doesn't do the club twirl or chase after his ball (unless he's really mad at it, or his caddie Ted Scott is cleaning it incorrectly), but he's as demanding as they come, which results in moments like the one that took place in the second round of the PGA Championship.
Scott was attempting to hold an umbrella to protect Bubba from the rain while simultaneously wiping the mini droplets off his Titleist with a towel while it was teed up.
I present to you:
@ShaneRyanHere @Adam_Sarson pic.twitter.com/R7a7UJ75su
— No Laying Up (@NoLayingUp) August 31, 2014
Bubba is also a huge wind guy and a huge "a rabbit tooted 16 holes away from me so I need to back off this drive and re-start my routine" guy, which gets him bonus points.

He's also tremendous on the green. Maybe Bubba can work his way up to the No. 2 spot in 2015.

5. Jordan Spieth: Spieth is a testament to the fact that you can absolutely force your way onto this list by mastering one single Tour Sauce move.
In Spieth's case it's the wayward drive point as a benefit to the fairway marshal so he or she can find the ball Spieth just blocked 35 yards to the right.
It's hard to understate how elite he is at this move. I mean, honestly, one in every six photos of him on Getty Images is in this position.
A sampling (all via Getty Images):



He has had a ton of training, though. From his days as a junior golfer, Spieth has been pointing wildly. Think of how good he'll be when he's 45!
“@NoLayingUp: Junior Spieth #TourSauce! (Via @rydercup) pic.twitter.com/8m0CHNhTYm” >Very Nice for on THE POINT also very calm look! Take Notes
— Go Time Golf (@GoTimeGolf) September 11, 2014
6. Keegan Bradley: The pre-shot routine alone would put him in the top 10 but when you factor in his antics on the green -- the sheer palpability of his anger when a putt goes the opposite way he thought it was going to go -- he has to be top six.

7. Phil Mickelson: Lefty is a bit of an enigma when it comes to Tour Sauce.
On one hand, he has convinced Bones and Butch Harmon to do the point while he's warming up on the driving range.
And he does stuff like this on the regular:
On the other hand, he does a lot of amateur "Sauce" stuff, too. He's a little too chummy with the fans -- that's not what you're here for, Phil! -- and we would like to see a little more blame tossed around on everybody but himself.
The FIGJAM stuff and the Tour Sauce overlap sometimes, but not always.
8. Sergio Garcia: For my money, the Spaniard is the king of the post-close-shot reaction that makes you think he dunked it in the water (never mind the fact that half the time he has in fact dunked it in the water).
Here's a good example (this probably landed about two feet from the cup):

9. Henrik Stenson: The Swede is the king of the "nah, not going to acknowledge the 50,000 people who came out to watch me, just going to throw my hand in the air as if I'm ordering a beer at a baseball game and look straight ahead" move.
He also breaks a lot of clubs, which the average golfer would never do because they're so expensive!


10. Barack Obama: An honorary golfing member of our list. But this photo was too good to not include. Having somebody else hold your umbrella for you (as we saw with Bubba) is the height of Tour Sauce.
Dare I say, Presidential Sauce:

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