List grows to 50 players who lost out to Woods

The list includes 21 major champs and 18 of the top 30 in the world rankings.
MIAMI (AP) -- Davis Love III was the first.
He was in a playoff against Tiger Woods when he failed to save par from a bunker and lost the 1996 Las Vegas Invitational.
Brett Wetterich was the latest.
He was faced with a four-shot deficit against the world's No. 1 player in the CA Championship at Doral.
He held his own, kept it interesting as long as he could, but wound up in second place and in the record books as a footnote.
Wetterich became the 50th player to be runner-up to Woods on the PGA Tour.
"Guess I had to become some kind of statistic," he said.
At least he's in good company.
The 50 victims include 21 major champions and 18 of the top 30 players in the world ranking, a list that goes from A (Stuart Appleby) to Z (Paul Azinger) when allowing for nicknames (Zinger).
Surprised even Woods
The milestone even caught Woods by surprise, based on the fact he said nothing for a few seconds and even then had little to offer except for, "Where do you come up with that?"
Matt Gogel (Pebble Beach) is now retired. Frank Nobilo (Western Open) works for The Golf Channel. Esteban Toledo (Buick Open) is on the Nationwide Tour. The list includes four Ryder Cup captains -- Tom Kite, Hal Sutton, Tom Lehman and Azinger.
"I wouldn't have guessed that," Woods said. "I would have thought some guys had been there more often than others."
Woods' victory at Doral was No. 56 in his PGA Tour career, and while 13 players have been runner-up multiple times, there have been 12 tournaments where at least two players tied for second. In two tournaments, there was a four-way tie for second.
That puts Brian Gay on the list.
"Who?" Woods said. "When did I beat him?"
That would be the 2002 Buick Open, along with Toledo, Fred Funk and Mark O'Meara, the only time on tour Woods' best buddy from Isleworth finished second to him.
Considering the record Woods has compiled, it might be a badge of honor to be runner-up.
Better yet is to never be on that list, something David Duval once mentioned.
Duval and Woods were rivals once, trading the No. 1 ranking during the summer of '99. At The Players Championship that next year, it was mentioned to Duval that he had never been runner-up to Woods.
"Nope. And I won't be," he said.
That didn't last long.
He might have finished second at the British Open in the summer of 2000 at St. Andrews if he could have escaped the Road Hole bunker in fewer than four attempts.
His luck ran out in 2001 at the Masters, when Duval missed putts inside 12 feet on the final two holes to finish two shots behind as Woods captured his fourth straight major.
Three major winners escape
Only three major champions from this decade have stayed off the list -- Ben Curtis, Todd Hamilton and Geoff Ogilvy, although the latter had done it overseas.
"I was runner-up to him in the Johnnie Walker," said Ogilvy, who finished three behind in Thailand seven years ago.
"He's had 50 guys on this tour? That's pretty amazing. If anything, it shows how much he's won, especially for a guy in his early 30s."
Ogilvy contemplated this for a few more seconds.
"Who's finished second the most?" he added. "That would be interesting."
That would be Ernie Els and Vijay Singh, five apiece.
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