Tiger Woods concluded the Masters on Sunday with a record he could do without: 16-over 304, his greatest 72-hole total in a career spanning three decades. Woods' previous highest score was 302 at the Memorial in 2015. He has only missed to break 300 once before, at the Masters two years ago, when he shot 78-78 over the weekend and ended at 301. Despite the score, Woods termed it a "good week" and said he'll start preparing for the last three majors: the PGA Championship in May, the U.S. Open in June, and the British Open in July.
"This is a golf course I knew coming in, so I'll do my homework. "Going forward at Pinehurst, Valhalla, and Troon," Woods stated. "But that's kind of the game plan."
Overall, he was satisfied with his performance.
"Coming in here, not having played a full tournament in a very long time, it was a good fight on Thursday and Friday," Woods told ESPN. "Unfortunately (Saturday) didn't quite turn out the way I wanted it to." The crowd didn't seem to care.The 48-year-old Woods, who is still battling with the affects of several surgeries that have damaged his body and reduced his playing time on the PGA Tour, earned a rousing cheer from the fans as he pitched close to the pin on No. 18 and made par. Woods, dressed in his typical Sunday red, raised his head to the fans. Woods has only played 24 holes in one competition leading up to the Masters. "I'm just going to keep lifting, keep the motor going, keep the body moving, keep getting stronger, keep progressing," he stated. "Hopefully the practice sessions will keep getting longer."
Woods finished last out of 60 players who made the cut. He has previously finished last in the 2020 Genesis Invitational at Riviera. Nonetheless, people gathered to watch the man who catapulted golf's popularity to new heights, even if he is no longer the top player at Augusta National.After his incredible fifth victory at age 43 in 2020, Woods ended tied for 38th, ending his significant competitive career. After placing 13th more than two years prior, he was forced to quit in the third round of the 2023 tournament owing to ailments that were exacerbated by the cold, wet conditions, which had clearly taken a physical toll on his body. This week, Woods shown brief flashes of his former brilliance while primarily depending on his course expertise.
For the record 24th time, he completed the opening two rounds in one over. Woods, however, struggled in the last two rounds and finished with an 82, the lowest round in his major career. this Saturday. "I enjoy returning here because I am familiar with the course and know how to play it," Woods remarked. "I can mimic shots in a way. Of course, it never quite compares to actually being outside and doing it. at his 100th career round at the Masters, he shot 77 on Sunday after completing the last 36 holes at 15 over.
Charlie, Woods' 15-year-old son, seemed to give him some swing advice prior to the round at the practice range. Though that didn't last long, things got off to a decent start. Woods had a 1 under after two holes, but bogeyed the third. Things went south on the par-4 fifth hole when he took an unplayable lie and had to be driven back to the tee box on a golf cart in order to swing again. He ultimately scored a triple-bogey 7. On the sixth, he added another bogey. On hole 16, he came dangerously close to chipping in from the sand, thrilling the crowd and bringing back happy memories of his famous chip in that year, when he won the fourth of his five titles at Augusta.
According to Woods, facing the wind was the hardest part of the week for him. reached 45 mph with gusts at times. "The way the course was playing, what it was doing to the golf shots, the balls, and the putting," Woods remarked. Here, it doesn't take much to lose your place. Regretfully, I was out of position quite a bit on Saturday and a few times today. The lone amateur to make the cut, Neal Shipley, played alongside the once-dominant Woods. It served as a sobering reminder of Woods' lengthy career.
Before Shipley, now 23 years old, was even born, in 1997, Woods started a run of consecutive cuts at the Masters. Despite being eliminated from contention, Woods continues to draw the same enormous crowd of admirers anxious to catch a look of the man that eventually the public face of the game. Whether Woods makes a good shot or a poor one, the crowd always cheers him on.
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