US Open Form Guide

08	07	06	05	04	03	02	01	00	99
1	2	MC	2	17	20	1	12	1	3

Assessing Tiger Woods' chances of winning this year's US Open is either very easy or very hard, depending on your point of view. Current form? He won on his last outing, overturning a four-shot deficit going into the final round to defeat a high quality field in the Memorial event at Muirfield Village. Course form? When Bethpage Black was first used for a major championship (the 2002 US Open) Woods didn't just cope with the difficult challenge better than the rest of the field, he won by no less than three strokes. Event form? He won the 2008 US Open on a broken leg. So he's either got perfect credentials to win again this June - or everything is so much in his favour that sod's law applies and he'll trip up. Conventional wisdom tells you that the US Open favours short and straight hitters, whilst recent history implies that long and strong is just as effective. But what is indisputable is that the winner must have a strong mind, an unbreakable spirit and the ability to hole clutch putts. And no-one in golfing history has been so blessed with those qualities as Tiger Woods.