“The hill caught it more than I thought it would,” he said. He changed to the putter to rip up the slope, left of the pin to leave himself about 10 feet away for a chance at par. “If I chipped it up on top, there’s a chance that it could actually come back to the front part of the green,” Woods said, adding that’s what happened when he tried it Wednesday during the pro-am.

He could have pitched it to the back of the green and up the slope and let it run back toward the hole. The ball rolled down the edge to the front of the green, and the pin was cut to the top left.Īrms crossed and a lob wedge in his hands, he studied multiple options. He still was 2 under for the tournament, even for his round, when he came up short of his target on the par-3 sixth hole, the famous green with a bunker in the middle. Just didn’t make the putts early and the middle part of the round when I had those opportunities. Probably should have shot probably five or six better than this easily. “I blocked a lot of putts early, and this is probably the highest score I could have shot today. Woods came within inches of an ace on the par-three 14th, his fifth hole of the round, but he missed a five-foot birdie chance two holes later. He missed birdie chances early and par chances late, and the finish was a polar opposite from his opening round when he closed with three straight birdies for a 69. Outside of swearing following bad shots, Woods rarely brings this kind of attention to himself inside the ropes. It was just we play pranks on one another all the time and virally I think this did not come across that way.” “If I offended anybody in any way, shape or form, I’m sorry.

“It was supposed to be all fun and games and obviously it hasn’t turned out that way,” Woods said.

By the end of the day, he moved up enough spots that he was certain to be around for the weekend. Woods apologized after his bogey-bogey finish for a 74 in the second round, which left him over the projected cut line.

On Friday, one fan shouted, “Tampon!” at Woods after he made a rare putt. Social media came to life when the moment was posted.

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