Golf gives no one a break. It doesn’t matter if you can’t get below 110 strokes at your club or if you’re Tiger Woods, with five green jackets on your shoulders and fifteen Majors. Just 24 hours after breaking the historical record for consecutive cuts at the Masters, the Californian golfer has handed in the worst card of his life at Augusta and the second worst of his career. He made 82 strokes, with two double bogeys, eight bogeys and two birdies. A real ordeal.
The hangover from glory has been stubborn. The explanation is not very complex. Tiger has again hit the irons poorly, as happened on Thursday and Friday, but he has also been very erratic from the tee. A combination that annihilates anyone. In addition, the putter has also not been willing to take on the role of saviour hero.
If yesterday the record was positive, today it has been the B side. His worst round in Augusta until today was 78 strokes, made in the third and fourth round of 2022. In addition, it is the first time since he has been playing the Masters, 29 years ago, that he has signed a double bogey on the 7th and another on the 8th. He had never made more than a bogey on hole 7. Similarly, the 42 strokes he made in the first nine also represent the worst record of his career in this stretch. Terrifying.
Tiger didn’t sugarcoat his round. “I didn’t have a good warm-up session and I didn’t hit well all day. I visited all the places you shouldn’t visit on this course. And I missed many putts, many, easy putts,” he explains. In his opinion, the lack of competition rhythm has played a bad trick on him. “After the birdie on the 5th, which could have been a turning point, came the bogey on the 6th with a three-putt and on the 7th I missed the chip to the bad side. When I could turn the situation around, I wasn’t able to.”
Finally, Woods confirmed, in case anyone had any doubts, that he will play tomorrow. “We’ll be ready to play. I’ll put myself in the hands of my team to recover as best as possible and we’ll be prepared,” he concludes.
