I was there: Tiger's win at the 2006 PGA Championship

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Tiger Woods took a methodical approach on his way to claiming the Wanamaker Trophy at Medinah in 2006.

What's it like to be there in person when Tiger Woods win a PGA TOUR event? As part of our Tiger Woods Victory Room, we asked several members of our PGATOUR.COM team to give us their thoughts on a Tiger win they attended in person. Have you seen a Tiger victory up close? Just click here to e-mail us and we'll post the best ones.

'I was there'

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WACKER: '06 PGA Champ.
AWTREY: '08 Arnold Palmer Inv't
McALLISTER: '08 U.S. Open
Tiger Woods Victory Room

While covering the 2006 PGA Championship at Medinah, Adam Scott said something about Tiger Woods that has stuck with me ever since.

"When I'm in the comfort zone, I feel I can do anything," Scott said. "Imagine how he must feel."

How Woods felt that sweltering mid-August day as he separated himself from Luke Donald and the rest of the field was a lot better than anyone else was feeling.

When Jack Nicklaus was at his best, his opponents knew they were beat. Nicklaus also knew that they knew they were beat. And they knew that Jack knew that they knew they were beat.

The same thing could be said for Tiger that day.

As I talked to player after player about another Woods win, they all said pretty much the same thing, just in different ways.

"I'm not sure even if I would have hit every fairway I would have been able to catch Tiger," said runner-up Shaun Micheel.

"We make mistakes more than he does," added Scott.

"You would think going to the first tee [Tiger] would feel the pressure because everyone is expecting him to win," said Chris DiMarco. "And it's the exact opposite. The guy playing with him feels the most pressure. He's a pretty intimidating guy, no doubt about it."

"He's obviously got a good game, but he just sort of wills it into the hole," said Donald, who began the day tied for the lead with Woods but finished six back. "You know [Tiger] could have made four or five bogeys out there, but he made only one in the end."

If the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist, then Woods is no devil. He was just the best that day, and the world already knew it.

Brian Wacker, a PGATOUR.COM Site Producer, is in charge of our Live Report during competition days.