PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Paul Casey is going for his third straight victory at the Valspar Championship, a feat difficult enough that only eight times in the last 40 years has a player won the same tournament at least three times in a row.
It didn't take long for Casey to take a stab at who else was on the list. “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger?” he said. Now repeat. Tiger Woods owns six of those eight occasions.
He won three in a row at Firestone twice (1999-2001 and 2005-07), along with the Memorial (1999-2001), and he won four in a row at Bay Hill (2000-03) and Torrey Pines (2005-08).
The other was a World Golf Championship that was held at three courses (Harding Park in 2005, The Grove in England in 2006, Doral in 2007).