Thread: Sean O'Hair leads Tiger Woods by one at Tour Championship

Who's gonna watch the tourney?


By DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
Posted: September 24, 2009

ATLANTA – Sean O’Hair got a putting tip from Tiger Woods and put it to good use Thursday in the Tour Championship, opening with a 4-under 66 to take a one-shot lead in the final FedEx Cup playoff event.

Woods did all right himself. He recovered from a shaky start with three birdies during a four-hole stretch on the back nine at East Lake for a 67, leaving him one shot back along with Padraig Harrington and British Open champion Stewart Cink.

O’Hair played six times last week at home with his buddies. Far more valuable was the nine holes of practice he spent Wednesday with Woods, when the world’s No. 1 player gave him some advice on adding loft to his backswing and releasing the blade through the ball.

“Getting advice like that from good players is obviously awesome, but getting it from basically the greatest of all time is pretty cool,” O’Hair said. “I mean, I’m his competition, and for him to help me out like he did was very classy, I thought.”

Woods response?

“I’m going to go chew him out right now,” he said, laughing.

I watched the 3rd and 4th rounds... I liked how it went other than Kenny Perry not showing up in the final round.... . I'm a big fan of Tiger, but don't mind other people playing well and winning. I'm glad Phil has his game on a good path now and hopefully next year we will see a lot of good duels between he and Tiger!