Paul Casey wins at Innisbrook as Tiger Woods come up short by a putt
Right when Paul Casey thought he was a winner in the Valspar Championship, he looked up at the TV and saw a scene that was all too familiar.
Tiger Woods, red shirt blazing Sunday, holed a 45-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole at Innisbrook that pulled him one shot back of Casey’s lead. Moments later, Woods settled over a birdie putt from just inside 40 feet that would have forced a playoff.
“I loved his putt on 17. That was amazing,” Casey said. “I thought he was going to hole the one on 18.”
Not this time. A long victory drought on the PGA Tour ended Sunday in Palm Harbor, Fla., just not the one most people were expecting.
Casey rallied from five shots behind.