The 2000 PGA Tour season was Tiger Woods’ best and one of the greatest seasons any tour player has ever had. That year he won three consecutive major championships—the U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship—by a combined 24 shots. He had nine total wins in 2000, and he was named the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Although Woods lapped the tour that year in just about every area of the game, he was best known for his brilliant iron play, knocking down flagsticks and leaving a lot of easy birdie looks. For the 2000 season, he ranked No. 1 on tour in greens hit in regulation (75.15 percent). That’s more than three out of every four greens! To give you an idea of just how good he was that year, there hasn’t been a player on the PGA Tour who has hit greens at that high a clip in the last decade. Tiger’s contact with the irons was so pure in the early 2000s that the tiny wear pattern on his clubfaces is still talked about to this day. $1 million clubs? Tiger irons used during histor...
