Woods won seven of those events, Mickelson two, with Tiger holding a 69.66 to 69.88 scoring edge, as per Woods’ official site. – Tiger Woods didn’t have his best stuff on Friday at the Players Championship, but a one-under 71 for the day and a two-day total of 143 means Woods is likely to survive the cut and make the weekend for his sixth straight tournament.
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Should the cut line shift a stroke to two-under, however, Woods will head home early and continue preparations for next month’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. Here’s a look at the odds to win this tournament.
The 47-year-old took golf’s conservative style style to a different degree with a long-sleeve collared workplace shirt at Sawgrass, and his struggling 79 was sympomatic of a wider malaise among the many much-hyped marquee teams at Sawgrass.
Rory McIlroy and defending champion Jon Rahm have already confirmed their attendance at the Irish Open, which is taking place at Ballyliffin from July 5-8.
“The US Open is coming up next so players’ schedules are not yet decided”.
Certainly, if 51-year-old Steve Stricker can shoot rounds of 67 and 69 to get into the top-10 at the tournament’s midway point, then shouldn’t the game’s historically transcendent player be hovering somewhere on the leaderboard?
Three-time Major victor Padraig Harrington returned to Carnoustie yesterday to the scene of his dramatic four-hole playoff victory against Sergio Garcia more than a decade ago.
Their surprise practice round together at Augusta ahead of the Masters set tongues wagging about golf’s new bromance. He can’t get anything going, couldn’t deliver one of those explosive runs from yesteryear, as one aspect or another of his arsenal continues to let him down.
Real Madrid star Gareth Bale hailed 14-time major champion Tiger Woods as the greatest golfer of all-time.
“It’d be awesome to see Tiger lift the trophy again”, said Bale, who is preparing for the Champions League final against Liverpool in Kiev on May 26. I tried to offset it this week by taking it easy, not doing too much, and tried to eat right, tried to do all the right things to hopefully not have it be an issue.
“I actually really like it”, said Mickelson, who is brand ambassador and equity holder in the menswear brand Mizzen and Main.
“And it sucked to have to play against him”. I kind of thought that was going to lead into something on the back.
“There’s trouble on every shot and when you’re a little off you get penalised pretty severely here”, Woods said.
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“We have always looked at each other and said, where is he on the board”, he said. “Starting to putt good again and get on greens that I know, and I just need to get the ball a little bit closer and a little bit faster than I did today”.
