SNR-2005-12-17-#20 - Andy Irons wins the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters and takes home The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing

Andy Irons wins the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters & takes home The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. AI was unstoppable today at Pipe scoring a perfect 10 on a backdoor double cover-up leaving his competitors comboed. It was an epic Pipe Masters with the Irons brothers going head to head. The older Irons brother figured winning at Pipe and taking home the Triple would be a nice consolation prize as a 2nd place finisher on the CT. It was a bitter sweet ending for Sunny Garcia making it all the way to the semi-finals to take the fourth position losing to Luke Egan and the Irons brothers. Both Sunny and Luke are retiring from the CT this year and will be truly missed for their years and years of leadership and inspiration on the CT.