PGA Grand Slam of Golf

In the 1997 Grand Slam, Tiger Woods executed an incredible sand shot on Poipu Bay’s signature 16th hole, a shot he described as one of the best he’s ever played. When Woods saw his ball buried in wet sand on a severe down slope in a greenside bunker, he said “I thought I was a dead man.” Woods tried what he described as a “100 to 1 shot,” as he lifted his club straight into the air and chopped down into the sand like an axe. The ball shot forward, hit the grass embankment, jumped straight up into the air and continued forward, stopping two feet from the hole. Woods knocked the putt in for what he calls “one of the best pars of my life.” In 2003, T&L Golf magazine ranked it as one of the “Top Ten Best Shots” of Woods’ career.

Tiger Woods returned to the PGA Grand Slam of Golf to set an event record by taking first place in the competition for five consecutive years from 1998 through 2002, followed by two more victories in 2005 and 2006. The prolific golfer would’ve won the event nine times in a row, but was foiled by Jim Furyk, who won in 2003, and Phil Mickleson, who took home the first place pot in 2004.