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I flicked on the golf World Match Play yesterday and was kind of satisfied to see Tiger Woods struggling with his game and trailing by 3 to JB Holmes.  But history has shown you should never under estimate the World Number 1.

Seemingly out of it at 3 down with 5 to play and struggling with all aspects of his game it looked like it was all over.  But then he showed why he is a champion.

The comeback started with a birdie, was followed by another then an eagle then another birdie. Meanwhile Holmes was in reverse, struggling to make par as the pressure started to tell and the crowd got behind their man as only annoying Americans can with their incesssant shouts of “get in the hole”.

The comeback was complete when Holmes could only match Woods par on 18.  The only saving grace is that Holmes is possibly the most annoying player in the world with his long and drawn out pre-shot routine. It consists of stand behind the ball and visualise.  The take your grip and wiggle 4 or 5 times.  Then stand behind it and visualise again.  Then take 4 practice swings.  Then finally address the ball and play the shot.  All of that takes about 2 minutes by which time I would be ready to take a swing myself - at him.

This routine was compounded on the 18th when he walked the 90 yards to the green, inspected it closely before walking back going through the routine and making the shot.  At least 5 minutes to play it. Madness, and hardly a good spectator sport!

How he doesn’t get pulled up for slow play is anybodies guess.