Tiger Woods’ wasted day on the U.S. Open
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tiger Woods scrambled his manner round Pebble Seaside throughout Thursday’s first spherical of the U.S. Open at Pebble Seaside. But, when it was throughout, when he signed his scorecard, the quantity subsequent to his title stated 70. On Friday, when his iron recreation appeared, effectively, ironed out, and he appeared again in command of his golf ball once more, he walked off the ultimate inexperienced and signed a scorecard that was two photographs worse than the day earlier than.
Woods shouldn’t be out of it; he exited the course after his second-round 72 seven behind chief Justin Rose and in a tie for 36th. However this a day during which the phrase “wasted probability” or “missed alternative” got here up again and again.
We undergo each gap to see how this all added as much as two-day whole of even par.
AP Photograph/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Word: Woods began his day on the again 9.
No. 10: Par four, 295 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: Even
Rating for the championship: 1 below
OK, so the other occurred on Tiger’s first gap of the second spherical. He flared irons on Thursday and was lights out on the inexperienced. On Friday, beginning at No. 10, he hits an ideal iron strategy after which misses a shortish birdie putt. That is a wasted probability that’ll trouble him.
No. 11: Par four, 390 Yards
Rating: Birdie
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
After a missed probability at No. 10, Tiger costs one in from 10 toes for birdie on the 11th. Extra attention-grabbing is the way it occurred: He spun his strategy from the intermediate tough. Why does that matter? It means Pebble Seaside is delicate once more and scores may get low.
No. 12: Par three, 202 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger performs a wise 12th gap. He would not attempt to mess with the pin, tucked behind the bunker on the par three. Hits it safely beneath the opening, two putts, strikes on about his enterprise.
No. 13: Par four, 445 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger makes an aggressive run at birdie at No. 13, however it slides by on the low facet from 25 toes. In the meantime, Jordan Spieth is placing on an early present proper alongside Woods and chief Justin Rose. Spieth rolled in one other birdie, his third in his first 4 holes.
No. 14: Par 5, 580 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
About 10 seconds after Jordan Spieth makes a psychological mistake with a wedge in his hand at No. 14, Tiger does the very same factor on the par 5. They each spin quick photographs again off the inexperienced. Tiger scrambles to make par, however Spieth makes a maddening, momentum-killing bogey.
No. 15: Par four, 397 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger with one other par at 15 after a so-so strategy with a brief iron. He is nonetheless 1 below for the day. A back-side of (at the least) 2 below must be the objective. The entrance 9 is the place you may make up some severe floor.
No. 16: Par four, 403 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger with a easy up-and-down at No. 16 after lacking the inexperienced. That is six pars and a birdie to this point within the second spherical. Now he simply has to outlive No. 17 earlier than giving himself a birdie probability on the 18th.
No. 17: Par three, 208 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger burns the sting for birdie at No. 17. He faucets in for par. That may have been an enormous birdie, a shot gained on the sector. It is nonetheless early within the second spherical, however there was only one birdie to this point on the par three immediately.
No. 18: Par 5, 542 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger takes an oddly conservative strategy to the 18th and walks away with par. Posts 1-under 35 on the again 9 — eight pars and one birdie. It is a strong facet, however his taking part in associate and chief Justin Rose is six forward. Subsequent seven holes are his (and Rose’s and Jordan Spieth’s) probability to assault.
No. 1: Par four, 380 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
A textbook solution to play No. 1 for Tiger. Good place off the tee, strategy beneath the opening from 20 toes. However the birdie putt would not drop. He did make up a shot on chief Justin Rose, who lastly made a bogey after a 360-degree spinout on his par putt.
No. 2: Par four, 516 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger drills one other birdie putt by the break at No. 2, this time lacking from 14 toes. All the things that went in Thursday’s first spherical is sliding previous an edge in Friday’s second spherical.
No. three: Par four, 404 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Solely the second time all day Tiger cannot discover a fairway. As he has all day — really, as he has the primary two days — he managed the error and walked away with one other par. That is 11 of them in 12 holes, to go along with a lone birdie.
No. four: Par four, 331 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
Tiger wasted one other probability. Good place off the fourth tee. Glorious management of his wedge from 110 yards, spinning it in to 7 toes. However one other missed putt — full with a couple of four-letter phrases caught by the FOX broadcast — results in par. With Justin Rose making bogey, he may have made up two photographs.
No. 5: Par three, 195 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 uder
No drama for Tiger on No. 5 this time. After Thursday’s off-the-cart-path journey, he finds the fats a part of the inexperienced on the par three and makes yet one more par. He is bought two birdie holes arising now, at No. 6 and seven.
No. 6: Par 5, 523 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
See if this sounds acquainted: Tiger Woods squanders one other nice birdie probability. That was a very dangerous par at No. 6 after, once more, being in excellent place. A so-so chip left an uphill Eight-footer. And because it has been all day, the putter that saved him Thursday lets him down Friday.
No. 7: Par three, 109 Yards
Rating: Par
Complete for the day: 1 below
Rating for the championship: 2 below
The strategy all day has been conservative from Tiger Woods. Although a lot of the sector has challenged the again pin on No. 7, which has led to numerous birdies, Woods wasn’t messing with it. One other secure par.
No. Eight: Par four, 428 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: Even
Rating for the championship: 1 below
Tiger Woods’ streak of holes and not using a bogey involves an finish at 29. It was his longest streak bogey-free streak on the U.S. Open. The one at No. Eight dropped him again to even par on his second spherical and 1 below for the championship.
No. 9: Par four: 526 Yards
Rating: Bogey
Complete for the day: 1 over
Rating for the championship: Even
Tiger Woods struggles to the end line of the second spherical of his U.S. Open at Pebble Seaside. A pair of bogeys to shut his spherical, at No. Eight and No. 9, forces him to signal for a 1-over 72 and places him at even par for the match. That is seven behind chief Justin Rose.