How Tiger just about performed himself out of The Open
PORTRUSH, Northern Eire — No person needed to say it for him. Tiger Woods stated it himself.
His recreation was not prepared for The Open.
“It isn’t fairly as sharp as I would wish to have it proper now,” he admitted earlier within the week.
That a lot was clear in Thursday’s first spherical. He shot 41 on the entrance 9, his worst-ever begin on this championship. He made only one birdie and signed for a 7-over 78.
Positive, he can go low on Friday and make the lower. However that’s exhausting to ascertain once you look again on what he did in Spherical 1:
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No. 1: Par Four, 421 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Even
It will appear to be a routine par on the scorecard, however Tiger Woods’ begin to The Open was removed from easy. Tee shot, with an iron, extensive left (with a bit wince afterward). Method rolls again into bunker, about 40 yards wanting the inexperienced. He hits picture-perfect sand blast to 10 ft. Rolls in putt, provides mini-first pump. Oh, and it began raining midway via the opening.
No. 2: Par 5, 574 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Even
The sphere has taken benefit of the par-5 second gap — it is the second-easiest on the course. Nonetheless, Tiger couldn’t give it a go after his tee shot discovered its approach right into a fairway bunker. Two holes, two unhealthy tee balls. Pressured to grind his approach as much as the inexperienced as an alternative of assault, Woods settles for a par.
No. Three: Par Three, 177 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Even
Tiger with a pinpoint iron on the third gap. The 15-footer for birdie hits the sting. Three holes in, three pars. And now the sideways rain has stopped and the solar is shining.
No. Four: Par Four, 482 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Even
Tiger hits his first fairway — and it finds its approach right into a divot. However he hits a robust strategy to 25 ft and two-putts for one more par. To date he has adopted his regular Tiger recreation plan at majors — play conservative, ease into issues and make some pars.
No. 5: Par Four, 374 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 1 over
With the tees up on Thursday, the par-Four fifth gap at Royal Portrush is drivable. DJ acquired there. So did Patrick Cantlay. Patrick Reed was proper in entrance. Tiger does not select that choice, as an alternative laying again with a Three-wood. This can be a birdie gap, a par-Four enjoying because the third-easiest on the course. Woods hits a wedge to the again of the inexperienced and three-putts for a foul, unhealthy bogey.
No. 6: Par Three, 194 Yards
Rating: Double bogey
Complete for the day: Three over
The wheels are beginning to fall off for Tiger Woods. He misses the inexperienced left on the par-Three sixth, then hits the shot all amateurs can determine with — a skulled flop shot. By the point his recreation of chase across the inexperienced ends, he writes a double on the scorecard to fall to three over. Heading towards hazard zone because the rain picks up once more.
No. 7: Par 5, 592 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: Four over
Tiger Woods chunks his approach up the par-5 seventh gap. A nasty drive, a horrible layup, a line drive off a mound, a hacked-out iron. Then he stuffs a wedge from 101 yards for a tap-in, completely weird bogey. In order that’s bogey, double, bogey over this three-hole stretch.
No. eight: Par Four, 434 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Four over
Tiger leaves a birdie putt two rolls brief on the eighth gap. Ends the unhealthy run, however nonetheless stands Four over.
No. 9: Par Four, 432 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 5 over
That was about as unhealthy because it might get for Tiger Woods on his first 9 at The Open. He bladed a wedge, he hacked it out of the tough, he three-putted. Generally, in golf, you’ll be able to masks all that and sneak away with a good quantity. Not this time. Tiger shoots 5-over 41 on the entrance.
No. 10: Par Four, 447 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger continues to slip, beginning his again 9 with one other bogey to fall to six over. Except one thing jolts him into type, a rating within the 80s just isn’t out of the realm of chance.
No. 11: Par Four, 474 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 6 over
On the 11th, Tiger was disgusted by his second shot and disgusted by his birdie putt. Luckily for him, he knocked within the 6-foot comebacker for a wanted par.
No. 12: Par 5, 532 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger’s seek for a birdie continues. He misses a superb likelihood on the par-5 12th. However the excellent news is it is not a bogey. He faucets in par to remain 6 over.
No. 13: Par Three, 194 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger with a second consecutive likelihood at birdie. And one other miss. Nothing good via 13 holes. Simply no continuity in his recreation, no vitality in his stroll.
No. 14: Par Four, 473 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 7 over
In his follow spherical earlier this week, Tiger Woods discovered himself within the deep bunker at No. 14. Left his first try within the bunker. Hit a couple of extra, simply in case he was again in it throughout competitors. Properly, guess what? That is the place he was within the first spherical. He acquired the ball out, however nowhere shut. The bogey prepare rolls on.
No. 15: Par Four, 426 Yards
Rating: Birdie
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger lastly makes a birdie, rolling in a protracted putt on the 15th. Because the ball tumbled into the opening, Woods threw his arms up within the air. After a day like he is had, there’s not rather more you are able to do than giggle.
No. 16: Par Three, 236 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger needed to work to keep away from a bogey on the 16th after a poor tee shot. However he will get up and down from a tough spot left of the inexperienced to salvage par. He walks to the 17th tee at 6 over.
No. 17: Par Four, 408 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 6 over
Tiger with a boring par on the 17th. That is saying one thing, given how issues have gone on this opening spherical. Fairway, inexperienced and two putts on the par Four. But when he desires to be round for the weekend, he will must put it in excessive gear on Friday.
No. 18: Par Four, 474 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 7-over 78
A becoming finish to a foul day. Tiger Woods makes yet one more bogey — lacking the golf green, lacking the inexperienced, lacking the par putt — to submit a 7-over 78 within the first spherical of The Open at Royal Portrush.