U Gusta, Ga. – Tiger Woods will defend his Masters title with a 19-month wait. On Thursday, he had to wait another three hours due to weather delays, which would not last long after the start of the game in the first round at Augusta National.
Tiger Woods will begin defending his Masters title at 10:55 a.m., 3 hours after his original tea time.
With a few people around him instead of thousands, who usually fill this space and watch his every move and Woods looked like the man he was in April 2019 and the golf has not been like that since he returned from his covid-19 interval.
Woods, who has not finished more than a T-37 after playing in six games, came back from a break, opening with 68. Woods became the first boogie-free Woods since the 2009 PGA Championship 2009. Main, 105 round stretch. It’s not the first time boogie free to open masters.
“There really was nothing, looking back, that I could do better,” Woods said.
Here’s how it happened:
No. 10: Par-4, 495 yards
Tiger Woods could start his Masters title defense, with an outrageous second shot in the 10th hole from the middle of the fairway – a mud ball. But he hits a bright pitch on a difficult front pin and defends the opening cross. At number 10, take exactly the way you can get it.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Also
No. 11: Par-4, 505 yards
Tiger Woods recovered from a wide second drive at 11 a.m. with a nice second shot that led to an easy cross. Now on the 12th, where you can bet all the money in your pocket will aim for the center of the green.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Also
No. 12: Par-3, 155 yards
Tiger Woods crosses 12th. He has navigated those three difficult holes with three straight pars outside the gate. That’s all he wanted.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Also
No. 13: Par-5, 510 yards
Tiger Woods flirts with difficulty on par-513, but his second shot hits the tributary of Ray’s Creek which sits in front of the green. After two putts, he walked away with his first birdie of the 2020 Masters.
Score: Birdie
Total for the day: Under 1
No. 14: Par-4, 440 yards
Tiger Woods with the 14th All World Two-Putt Par. He went to the perfection of Leela to leave himself kick-in. Now, another par 5, which means Attack Time.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 1
No. 15: Par-5, 530 yards
He probably had to work harder than he liked, but Tiger Woods turns into a birdie in the par-5 15. His round is still young, but this is the only way he would have pulled it off before his day started. Make a pars as early as possible, take advantage of par 5, avoid dumb mistakes.
Score: Birdie
Total for the day: Under 2
No. 16: Par-3, 170 yards
The last time Tiger Woods played 16th hole in the competition was in the final round in his back gallery with Michael Phelps last year, he almost had an ace. On Thursday, he almost knocked it over. He has less than a foot to go below 3 in his round for another birdie.
Score: Birdie
Total for the day: 3 under
No. 17: Par-4, 440 yards
Tiger Woods misses Birdie for the third time in a row while sitting in the hall on his putt 17 and making two revolutions. He changed himself when he went to tap across, knowing there was a good chance for another one.
Score: Par
Total for the day: 3 under
No. 18: Par-4, 465 yards
Tiger Woods came out with a plan in this first round and he ran flawlessly than his opening nine. –Under with 33 to open six pars and three birdies. And he’s also smiling, so, yeah, he’s happy with how he walks so far.
Score: Par
Total for the day: 3 under
No. 1: Par-4, 445 yards
He took just 10 holes for the master’s first Tiger Woods fist pump. He turns into a 25-footer for a birdie on his 10th day’s 1st hole, to go down 4 in the round. And today for the first time you imagine what this place will look like with the patrons after going inside this place.
Score: Birdie
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 2: Par-5, 575 yards
It wasn’t a boogie, but it would seem. After a 350 yard drive in the par 5 second hole, Tiger Woods fails to make a birdie after a loose second shot. Again, that’s okay, but after that tea ball, you’re thinking birdie – or better.
Score: Par
Total for the day: 4 under
No. 3: Par-4, 350 yards
There are many ways to play Augusta Gusta National. Bryson de Chembu and John Rehme let him rip on the third hole; Tiger Woods hit an iron from the tee. The equivalent of the woods settles after a 20-foot edge burns on its surface. There is still no fault on the card, but his arch is hiding the enemy (No. 5).
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 4: Par-3, 240 yards
Tiger Woods, with a 7-iron pinpoint on the fourth hole, doesn’t make that 15-footer for Birdie, but he’s still in control of his swing and the game. And although the last two putts haven’t left, he looks more comfortable with the club since he returned to golf in June.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 5: Par-4, 495 yards
For the first time since Augusta Gusta National extended the fifth hole, Tiger Woods has competed in the Masters. He went 0-for-4 during his win last year, and was making bogeys every day.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 6: Par-3, 180 yards
Par 3 Tiger Woods’ second great iron shot on the 6th hole. The putt could not be converted, but he is happy with the continuous diet of 15-footers for birdies.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 7: Par-4, 450 yards
Tiger Woods, whose approach spins 60 feet away from the seventh hole, is one of the few memories of the day. But, again, his pace was perfect on the leg stretch and went away with another cross.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 8: Par-5, 570 yards
The first appearance of an angry tiger. After a good drive and solid layout on the par-5 eighth hole, it kills the terrible wedge in the green and resists the request to throw the club. Instead of giving a good look at the birdie, he has to settle in a two-fold part from 40 feet. It’s two pieces on first-nine par 5s that won’t fit well with it.
Score: Par
Total for the day: Under 4
No. 9: Par-4, 460 yards
Tiger Woods came off exactly to shoot 68 to start his Masters title defense. It is the first time since the start of the 2009 PGA Championship that it has been the largest bogie-free 105-round stretch.
Score: Par
Total for the day: 4-under 68
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