Another round in the 80s for Woods
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TIGER Woods endured the worst US Open round of his career on Thursday with a shocking 10-over 80 at Chambers Bay.
It marked Woods’ third round in the 80s this season and he equalled the worst major championship round of his career, bringing back memories of his 10-over 81 at the storm-hit 2002 British Open in Muirfield.
“Not very happy, that’s for sure. It was a tough day,” said Woods. “I couldn’t quite get it turned around today.”
Woods’ head-scratching opening round comes just two weeks after he shot a career-high 85 in the third round of The Memorial. His previous worst score in a US Open was in 2006 at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York, where he shot two straight rounds of 76 and missed the cut.
“For some reason I just can’t get the consistency that I’d like to have out there,” said Woods, who finished with eight bogeys, one triple bogey and just one birdie.
The 10-over comes 15 years to the day that Woods won his first US Open title by 15 strokes at Pebble Beach. Now the 14-time major winner will need a miracle to make the cut as he finished ahead of just two other players at Chambers Bay and one of those was his playing partner and reigning Players Championship winner Rickie Fowler who shot an 11-over 81. Woods started his round with back-to-back bogeys on the front nine as his season-long slump is showing no signs of ending soon despite a series of swing changes he implemented in the hope it would straighten out his game. On the back nine he had three straight bogeys beginning at No. 11, followed by a triple bogey on the par-four 14th.
He capped his round with another bogey at the par-five 18 after topping his approach so deep into one bunker that he had to go down a set of stairs to find it.
Woods was even outscored by 15-year-old amateur Cole Hammer who beat him by three strokes with a 77. The only other player to finish worse than Woods and Fowler was Rich Berberian who had a 13-over 83. “The bright side is at least I kicked Rickie’s butt today,” said Woods, trying to find some humor in the situation. “I couldn’t grind out any harder than that. Unfortunately it was a high number today.”
Henrik Stenson and Dustin Johnson shared the lead at 5-under 65, and the other 23 players who managed to break par agreed that the new course likely will only get tougher the rest of the way.
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