TULSA, Okla. — Tiger Woods most likely would fairly have skipped the PGA Championship reduce Friday.
Just several hours just after he place on one particular of his patented grind-it-out performances to make the slice at Southern Hills late Friday, Woods seemed like he had practically nothing still left for his third spherical on Saturday morning.
The 46-yr-old Woods shot a spectacular 9-in excess of-in excess of-par 79 in the 3rd spherical and, when his round finished, he was tied for previous position amid the 79 gamers who designed the minimize.
His Saturday rating was 10 shots worse than his Friday rating of 69.
“I just didn’t play properly,’’ Woods mentioned afterward. “I did not strike the ball incredibly nicely, and bought off to not the start I necessary to get off to. I believed I hit a excellent tee shot down 2 and finished up in the drinking water, and just hardly ever truly obtained any type of momentum on my facet.
“I just did not do anything proper. I did not strike numerous fantastic shots. Therefore, I finished up with a rather high rating.’’
Woods was 10-around-par by way of 13 holes in the spherical and it looked like he was going to shoot anything in the 80s. In just one extend, he carded bogeys on five consecutive holes (9 via 13) and six of seven.
“I couldn’t get off the bogey train there … or other practice, far too,’’ he explained, referring to his triple-bogey on No. 6.
He shot 41 on the front 9, eclipsed only by the 44 Sepp Straka posted on his first nine holes. But Straka rallied to shoot even-par 35 on the back again.
It took 15 holes ahead of Woods designed his only birdie of the round.
His struggle commenced early. Although he hit the first fairway with a 297-lawn push, his strategy shot was short of the environmentally friendly. He scrambled to get up-and-down with a pitch to 13 ft and made the putt to conserve par.
Woods’ to start with of also a lot of bogeys on the working day arrived on the 2nd gap, many thanks to his tee shot ending up in a creek.
The spherical really began to get unsightly on the sixth hole, a 218-yard par 3, where he took a messy triple bogey, the hassle beginning with his tee shot landing in the water way remaining and short of the eco-friendly. That designed Woods 4-more than for the round and 7-about for the match.
He would than bogey No. 7, a 493-lawn par-4, where he was quick of the inexperienced with his tactic shot and unsuccessful to help save par when he skipped a seven-footer.
He received into far more problems on No. 9, where by he it his tee shot into a fairway bunker and then embedded his 2nd shot into the financial institution of the bunker striving to get out. Woods bought a favorable ruling and was offered reduction for the embedded ball. Hs following shot failed to reach the inexperienced and he was pressured to make an 8-footer for bogey.
Woods proceeded to bogey the initial 4 holes of his back again 9 to tumble to 10-more than for the spherical via 13 holes and 13-over for the match.
Despite the point that he was visibly laboring to basically stroll, Woods refused to use his physical ailment as an justification.
When questioned if he was surely likely to play on Sunday’s last spherical, he didn’t remedy the concern specifically, saying, “Well, I’m sore. I know that is for a actuality. We’ll do some get the job done and see how it goes.’’
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