SAD NEW: Tiger Wood Broke down holding his baby in emotional after….. (Full Details below šš)
SAD NEW: Tiger Wood Broke down holding his baby in emotional after…..
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Tiger Woods predicted aāwar of attritionā at the US Open ā and the devilish greens of Pinehurst have already taken some early victims
Turtlebacks, upturned sauces, upside down cereal bowls ā whatever you prefer to call them ā the treacherous domed greens on this iconic Donald Ross design are the talk of this weekās championship.
And despite holing some important early putts, Woods had his fair share of struggles on the lighting fast putting surfaces
Iād like to hit a few putts. My speed was not quite there. I think I 3-putted, what, two or three times today. If I clean that up, if I get a couple iron shots not as loose as I did, Iām right there at even par.
āIt can go so far the other way here, the wrong way. Itās just so hard to get back. This is a golf course that doesnāt give up a whole lot of birdies. It gives up a lot of bogeys and higher.
āI thought I did the one thing I needed to do today, which is drive the ball well. I did that, I just didnāt capitalise on any of it.ā
Phil Mickelson (79), Sahith Theegala (77) and Justin Thomas (77) all struggled early at Pinehurst..
The 15-time major champ opened with a four-over-par 74 in the morning wave on Thursday, leaving him nine shots behind the early pacesetter Patrick Cantlay.
āI didnāt hit my irons particularly well,ā Woods said after hitting 14 fairways but just nine greens in regulation. āDidnāt putt that great. Drove it on the string all day. Unfortunately I just didnāt capitalise on it
.āOn the unique Pinehurst test, Woods added: āThis golf course is all about the greens. The complexes are just so difficult and so severe that, I mean, I think 1-under par is only in fifthā¦ there arenāt that many scores that are low.
āItās hard to get the ball close. In most golf courses you play, you hit shots into where itās feeding off of slopes into flags, whereas collecting. Here everything is repelling. Itās just hard to get the ball on top of the shelves.
āYou know if you miss it short side, itās an auto bogey or higher. Being aggressive to a conservative line is I think how you need to play this particular golf course.ā
USGA tournament organisers have insisted that the greens will be a ātough but fairā test at Pinehurst, despite the concern from defending champion Wyndham Clark claiming before the tournament that they are āborderlineā out of control.
And Woods added: āThe greens are right where they want them. A lot of the pins were right up on the crest of the green. A lot of the pins were ā if you dumped the ball in the middle of the green, it was into the grain then downgrain, into the grain and then do
Tiger Woods predicted aāwar of attritionā at the US Open ā and the devilish greens of Pinehurst have already taken some early victims.
Turtlebacks, upturned sauces, upside down cereal bowls ā whatever you prefer to call them ā the treacherous domed greens on this iconic Donald Ross design are the talk of this weekās championship.
And despite holing some important early putts, Woods had his fair share of struggles on the lighting fast putting surfaces.
The 15-time major champ opened with a four-over-par 74 in the morning wave on Thursday, leaving him nine shots behind the early pacesetter Patrick Cantlay.
āI didnāt hit my irons particularly well,ā Woods said after hitting 14 fairways but just nine greens in regulation. āDidnāt putt that great. Drove it on the string all day. Unfortunately I just didnāt capitalise on it.ā
On the unique Pinehurst test, Woods added: āThis golf course is all about the greens. The complexes are just so difficult and so severe that, I mean, I think 1-under par is only in fifthā¦ there arenāt that many scores that are low.
āItās hard to get the ball close. In most golf courses you play, you hit shots into where itās feeding off of slopes into flags, whereas collecting. Here everything is repelling. Itās just hard to get the ball on top of the shelves.
āYou know if you miss it short side, itās an auto bogey or higher. Being aggressive to a conservative line is I think how you need to play this particular golf course.ā
USGA tournament organisers have insisted that the greens will be a ātough but fairā test at Pinehurst, despite the concern from defending champion Wyndham Clark claiming before the tournament that they are āborderlineā out of control.
And Woods added: āThe greens are right where they want them. A lot of the pins were right up on the crest of the green. A lot of the pins were ā if you dumped the ball in the middle of the green, it was into the grain then downgrain, into the grain and then downgrain.
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āThatās how the golf course is going to be set up. We know that going in here. Just a matter of putting the ball in correct spots and just making a bunch of pars and occasionally a birdie here and there, it can be done.ā
Woods ā who says he is āphysically getting betterā ā was then asked how he will prepare for Fridayās second round.
āIām hoping I donāt get too tight in the car ride back, that maybe I can hit a few,ā he said. āI can get tight in air-conditioning. Get back there, thereās usually no point.