In another pedestrian round Saturday that caused him to lose more ground in the Bridgestone Invitational, Woods didn’t hit a fairway until the 11th hole and struggled so much with his putting that one of his associates brought him a different putter out to the practice green after a round of 72.
I know the feeling sir...
Woods is 1-over through 54 holes, which leaves him 13 shots behind Adam Scott going in to today.
What he noticed at Firestone was the shape of his tee shots. Instead of playing a fade or a draw off the tee, depending on the shape of the flight he wanted, Woods was hitting it straighter. He said the trouble was still aiming right or left.
“Still struggling a little bit with my setup and alignments off of tee shots because I used to curve the ball a lot more,” he said. “I don’t curve the ball as much anymore, and it’s kind of hard to trust when I’m out there in tournament play. And most of my shots are missing right on the edges of fairways, so I’ve just got to get more committed to that." “I’m hitting the ball straighter,” he said. “It’s a nice change. But it’s still a change.”
He missed every fairway on the front nine, and some of them weren’t that close. His shot on No. 6 went into the gallery, plunked a fan in the back and bounced into the rough on the other side of the ropes. Brady Klotz, the college kid he struck, was so excited about being hit that he posed with the glove that Woods signed for him.
Brady Klotz
Woods picked up two birdies to offset some early mistakes, but finished poorly. A sand wedge for his third shot to the par-5 16th went over the green and into a bunker for a bogey, and he three-putted the 18th for a 72.
About all that Woods can get out of this World Golf Championship now is four rounds, and hopes of a good Sunday to improve on his standing with the FedEx Cup playoffs at the end of the month. Woods is at No. 135, although he has two weeks to get into the top 125 and appears he can at least do that.
Finish strong Tiger...
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