Woods’ face mentioned all of it coming off the course. He exited Augusta by means of the standard tunnel of patrons clapping and cheering, some extending fists. Woods was stone confronted the entire manner, barely blinking.
The ten-over 82 is a brand new record-high rating in his main championship skilled profession — the worst of all 307 main rounds he’s performed over the past 27 years.
Woods mentioned afterward he started Saturday with a poor warmup session and by no means discovered rhythm all through the spherical.
“Simply hitting the ball in all of the locations that I do know I shouldn’t hit it,” Woods mentioned. “And I missed numerous putts. Straightforward, makable putts. I missed numerous them.”
The outcomes: Woods discovered solely 4 fairways within the third spherical, hit eight greens in regulation and tallied 34 putts.
Following Friday’s triumph of creating his document twenty fourth straight Masters lower as knowledgeable, Saturday made you surprise if it was value it. Woods limped extra noticeably all through Saturday, the results of Friday’s demanding 23-hole day stemming from opening spherical delays on Thursday.
Beginning his third spherical at 1-over par for the match and tied for twenty seventh on the leaderboard, Woods opened by striping the primary fairway. A bit over an hour later, he arrived at No. 6 nonetheless at even par. Then all of it went improper, rapidly. A bogey-double bogey-double bogey-bogey stretch wrapped up a front-nine 42. On the again, he struggled with 5 bogeys buffered by just one bogey.
On 9, Woods completed a one-handed comply with by means of in apparent ache, as his ball tumbled into the correct pine straw. His subsequent swing seemed simply as insufferable, as he once more completed with one hand on the membership.
Woods admitted to being warn out by Friday’s haul, however mentioned he plans to proceed Sunday. That very nicely might depend on his post-round bodily remedy session. Woods has withdrawn from two of his final three main match appearances resulting from bodily limitations.
“Will probably be an extended evening and an extended warmup session, however we’ll be prepared,” Woods mentioned.
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Masters Spherical 3 takeaways: Tiger Woods shoots 82, career-highest spherical at Augusta