Tiger Woods’ three best ever golf shots have been named by the caddie who won 13 majors with him

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Tiger Woods has played so many outstanding shots in his golf career that it feels an impossible task trying to pick a favourite.

You don’t win 15 majors and have 82 PGA Tour wins to your name without being able to pull some magic out of the hat every so often.

Over the years, we’ve seen Woods hit phenomenal drives, stunning long and short-irons and when it comes to getting up and down, few have been better in and around the greens.

Of course, some are lucky enough to spend more time with Tiger and one of those to do just that for years was his caddie, Steve Williams.

Williams was on the bag for much of Woods’ success and when asked about the best ever shots he saw Woods hit, he admitted it’s hard to nail one.

Tiger Woods’ best three shots named

Steve Williams was on the bag for 13 of the 15 major wins Tiger Woods enjoyed.

Within that, Williams got to witness some moments of genius from Woods and when pressed on the best shots he ever saw, Williams gave some unique insight.

“The legendary shot from Tiger is hard to say. The one out of the bunker at Glen Abbey at the 2000 Canadian Open out of that bunker. Or the shot at Hazeltine out of the fairway bunker on the 18th hole on the Friday, one of those two shots. They were shots which could never be repeated. The chip in at Augusta was okay too,” Williams noted on the Talk Birdie to Me Podcast.

Speaking more specifically on the chip in at Augusta, Williams added some further insight.

“It was just incredible because those few seconds when the ball leaves the tee and you think is it left, is it in the bunker? Is it in the water? And we were walking up there and Tiger is yelling at me. Where is it? I don’t know where the ball is, I have never been up there. It’s such a bad shot.

“Finchy was up in the tower behind the 15th green and I got his attention and said is that alright? He put his thumps up so I said to Tiger it’s dry.

“He gets up there and surveys the shot. He said Stevie, there’s a pitch mark, do you think if I hit that pitch mark it won’t go too far up the hill and it won’t get too much speed and come back racing past the hole. I said that looks pretty good. He explained the shot, unbelievably.

“When he hit the shot I wasn’t watching, I was watching the pitch mark, just to see how closely it went to it. And it landed on that pitch mark. That was the most amazing thing, it wasn’t that it went in. It actually landed on the pitch mark! And the rest is history.”

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The golf shot Tiger Woods said was his best ever

With Williams detailing things here, it’s hard to argue with him really given how much time he spent with Woods over the years.

Indeed, while Williams mentions the shot at Hazeltine, that is also the one that Woods picks as his greatest ever.

Woods believes his shot from the bunker at that PGA Championship was his best ever, describing it as a shot where he’d ‘never felt contact like that in my life’.

With Woods’ best days behind him now, we’re unlikely to see such efforts again.

However, there is always that nagging feeling that one day, just maybe, Woods will produce a few more moments of pure magic before he hangs up the clubs.