How would the scoring of an average club golfer compare with that of Tiger Woods, winner of a record-equalling three major professional championships this year? The conundrum was presented to an American mathematics professor, who did his calculations on Woods from 10 successive tournament rounds this season and then worked out how typical, handicap players would match up. These were his findings:
E B P B D/B T/B v-Par
Woods 2 48 112 17 1 0 -33
Scratch 0 27 108 40 5 0 +23
10/h'cap 0 6 65 80 26 3 +135
15/h'cap 0 3 46 83 39 9 +185
20/h'cap 0 1 30 76 54 19 +240
Meanwhile, those extraordinary golfing genes seem to be working overtime. Cheyenne Woods, 10-year-old niece of you-know-who, did something rather special last weekend. With nine-hole rounds of 34 and 36 in the US Kids' Championship in Georgia, Tiger's relative through the first marriage of his father, Earl, won the nine to 10 age group by no fewer than four strokes.
