ST. LOUIS -- Even without the victory, Tiger Woods delivered the victory fist pump on the 72nd hole. It was a hard right, too, a punch packed with the kind of mean intentions thrown by an old heavyweight from St. Louis by the name of Sonny Liston. Tiger Woods finally said the hell with it Sunday, the hell with an entire career spent hating on second place.
Woods was going to celebrate a loss for once in his glorious sporting life. He made that 19-foot birdie putt that he knew in his heart wouldn't topple Brooks Koepka, and then Tiger responded at Bellerive as if he had just won his fifth green jacket at Augusta National.