Johnson Wagner, meet Tiger Woods 2000.
The Golf Channel analyst and three-time PGA Tour winner is recreating some of Tiger’s most iconic shots from his most famous season, live during “Golf Central Postgame,” Thursday through Sunday.
Wagner is traveling to four select sites to see if he can pull off some of the most memorable shots over the last 25 years. Which sites, which shots? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
He did his first one(s) Thursday:
A pair from Pebble Beach
First up were two shots from Pebble Beach, which hosted a couple of events in 2000 – both won by Woods. In February, at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Woods overcame a seven-stroke, final-round deficit to chase down and surpass Matt Gogel. The highlight of that performance was his hole-out from 97 yards on the par-4 15th. That helped keep alive Tiger’s winning streak, which reached six straight starts dating back to the ’99 season.
Wagner hits DART trying Tiger 2000 Pebble hole-out
Johnson Wagner’s North America tour recreating iconic shots from Tiger Woods’ 2000 season starts with a bang: He sticks his approach on Pebble Beach’s par-4 15th, where Tiger holed out in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Recreation No. 2 came from June’s U.S. Open. Woods hit 15 fewer shots than anyone that week, and the one that everyone remembers – which made an awed on-course reporter Roger Maltbie say, “It’s just not a fair fight” – was his second into the par-5 sixth, a 7-iron out of the (then) 4-inch rough from 205 yards in Round 2. Woods went on to win his fifth event of the year – his third career major – and set a record for major-championship margin of victory.
Wagner can’t muster Tiger’s magic on 6th at Pebble
In the second recreation on his tour of iconic Tiger Woods 2000 shots, Johnson Wagner tries to hit Tiger’s otherworldly U.S. Open approach on Pebble Beach’s 6th hole. No one, he discovers, can do what Tiger could.
Here are the scheduled times for the remaining “Postgame” shows, which will be hosted by Wagner’s “Live From” colleagues, Rich Lerner and Brandel Chamblee. (all EDT):
- Friday, May 9: 6-7 p.m.
- Saturday, May 10: 7:30-8:30 p.m.
- Sunday, May 11: 6-7 p.m.
