Johnny Miller once opined that in golfing combat, Tiger Woods was the sun and the rest were butter.
Well, England's Robert Rock emphatically shot that theory down in flames on Sunday, producing a career-defining display of guts and guile to win the Abu Dhabi Championship and eclipse the game's greatest player.
For a one-time tutor at Lichfield's Swingers Golf Centre — we should resist any Tiger-related ribaldry — such a feat defied belief. It was rare, if ever, that Woods had headed into the final round of a tournament in the lead and lost. In 60 previous occasions, it had happened just eight times.
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