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What: “I Am Tiger Woods”

Where: ESPN, Tuesday, 4 p.m.

ESPN will devote half an hour to recapping Tiger Woods’ year. It could have used two hours. Woods won a dozen tournaments worldwide in 2000, nine PGA events and three majors--almost always in dramatic fashion. Even winning the U.S. Open by 15 strokes was dramatic because it was phenomenal.

As one writer says on this show, “You could argue it’s the greatest season any athlete has ever had.”

Woods deserves a more in-depth year-ender.

The Golf Channel has the right idea. On Dec. 30, Woods’ 25th birthday, the Golf Channel will start “24 Hours of Tiger,” at 3 a.m. At 5 p.m. there will successive one-hour highlight shows of the U.S. Open, British Open and PGA Championship. Those highlights will be shown again at 8 p.m.

The ESPN show, which is hosted by Karl Ravech, begins with Woods’ dramatic playoff victory over Ernie Els at the Mercedes Championships at Kapalua, Hawaii, and then follows him through the year. His second tournament of the year was the AT&T; at Pebble Beach, where he holed out at 15 for an eagle on his way making up seven strokes in nine holes and beating rookie Matt Gogel.

There were victories at Bay Hill and the Memorial, then it was back to Pebble Beach for the Open. Of his rout there, Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press says, “I never thought looking at a scoreboard would make such a lasting image.”

He won at St. Andrews by eight shots, and set a British Open scoring record with a 72-hole total of 19-under-par 269.

“How many times do you get to watch something like that unfold in front of you?” asks Davis Love III.

Woods won the PGA Championship in a playoff over Bob May in what was called one of the greatest tournaments ever. But then his win over Els at Kapalua was equally dramatic, it just wasn’t a major.

Woods won the Canadian Open by hitting a six-iron from 218 yards over water and onto the 18th hole to set up a birdie. He finished the year by winning all four times he teed it up.

Hal Sutton, who beat Woods at the Players Championship, says, “I wanted to beat him bad. I felt like, not only did Hal Sutton need that but golf needed it. You know, everybody was writing all the players off against him and I just felt like--I think the world and all of Tiger--but Tiger had to go down that week.”

He finished tied for fifth, six strokes back, at the Masters and was a stroke back at the Byron Nelson, but otherwise it was the year of the Tiger.