Augusta, Ga. – Tiger Woods made three holes in the masters on Sunday, while he was standing at No. 18 on the TB box. Some of the men sitting around the 17th Lily didn’t bother to look.
This was not a charge towards the sixth green jacket. It was Woods ’last act like any other in Woods’ quarter-century around the Gusta National Golf Club on Sunday: he scored exactly 76 of his worst rounds in any Masters. Yet that score was a much bigger achievement than that, or indicates a 38th place tie in one of its equivalents.
“The game is sometimes terribly lonely,” said Woods, who entered the tournament as his defending champion. “You have to fight it. No one will knock you out of the stone or call you a sub. You have to fight through it. That is why this game becomes mentally very special and difficult. ”
Some of the game’s figures were able to push as much as Woods, who seemed intent on saving something even if a few people were watching. He birdied five of the final six holes and parsed the others – showing a better end than the new champion, Dustin Johnson, who finished less than 20 years away. Calling the experience of being particularly decisive in the Masters, Woods combined some kind of performance to weaken the roar of the field in general.
But it came just after the 12th-ranked haphazard catastrophic turn, the very hole that Woods used as a springboard to win his Masters last year.
In its religious Sunday red, it turned into a hole, in par-3 around Rye Creek after the coronavirus epidemic forced a postponement of the traditional April Major after it became brighter than the soft colors of autumn this year. He had the confidence to earn a second tournament, equalizing in his first two rounds and birdies on Saturday.
Swing. Plop. The ball turned into water.
“The wind was off the right side for the first two people, and then when I swam there pped it turned to the sound of crying from the left side,” Woods said. “I didn’t commit to the wind, and I got out of it and pushed it too, because I thought the wind would come from the right and it was from the left, and that’s where the problem started.” ”
“From there,” he added, “I hit a lot more shots and there were a lot more experiences at Roy Creek.”
From the drop zone: Swing. Hit the green. Return to water.
Again from the drop zone: The ball remained dry, but it went into the rear bunker. Then, with Woods’ feet forming a quadrilateral over the sand, he went over the flagpole and into the water. He tried again from the bunker and finally reached the green safely.
Missed a putt. Then, finally, technically doing the 10th stroke somewhere between compassionate and hitting gaps came to a conclusion. He emptied the hole with the help of day 56 and his worst score on any hole during his career on the PGA Tour. His gallery had already shrunk due to the Augusta National epidemic alert, but fled.
“He had a bit of a disaster on that hole, didn’t he?” Said Shane Lori, who was in Woods’ group. “Look, this is August Gusta when the wind is blowing like this. It’s a pity we weren’t out for a full day in this because for some it would have been a great opportunity to hit good scores and really move up the leaderboards. “
Woods definitely tried. But much remains to be done on the last six holes, even at the start of the day and before tormenting the hole known as the Golden Bell, Woods needed the greatest comeback in master history if he was to keep his green jacket. For the second year.
Observers thinner. Woods plowed, invisible on almost all scoreboards. No problem
Birdie. Par. Birdie. Birdie. Birdie.
Then at No. 18, the place that saw the champions is full of pride. He looked down the 465-yard hole, losing the final test of the tournament.
He took her to the right of the second bunker, in the middle of the fairway. Then came a push on the greenery. Earned claps on nifty put for birdie but nothing like screaming.
Then a reporter asked about his motivation – at a worried worried age and with a career of triumph, pain and probation whether he worries or not, he will probably be gone for a while.
“No matter how hard I try, things don’t work the way she used to, and it doesn’t matter how much I push this body and what it asks,” Woods said. “Yes, it’s harder to get motivated at times than others.”
But there he was at the August Gusta on Sunday, advancing the confirmation, evaluating the past, talking about the future. Later, he emerged to introduce Johnson to the green jacket.
This Sunday, at least, it was someone else’s turn.
