Tiger Woods is out of contention and out early on the course at the Open Championship. So far, his final round looks more like a Sunday causal stroll with Jason Dufner, the two joking and laughing on the walk up almost every fairway. Although Woods would love to play well, the pressure isn’t exactly turned up and at this point, he’s probably just trying to get through his round as fast as possible, hop on a jet, and get back to Florida.
Tiger Woods attempts crazy 3-wood shot from rough, pops it up
Well out of the British Open, Tiger tries to rip a 3-wood through some high fescue junk.
That kind of approach might yield some interesting shot attempts, and we saw one of the crazier plays from Woods at the difficult 7th hole. Tiger pushed his drive right in the typical Open high fescue grass. He had one of those nasty lies deep down in the junk but still a mile from the hole, so he decided to pull a ... 3-wood. The result, as you might imagine, was not ideal -- Tiger got through the high stuff but under the ball and badly popped one up.
While that was an ugly-looking and startling shot, it could have gone much worse, at least it stayed in play. But if he was anywhere near the first page of the leaderboard, he would not have attempted that shot.
Tiger wouldn’t do much to recover from there. He needed four more strokes from that spot in the fairway, walking off with a double bogey. He’s now at 4-over for the championship, and only seven players are worse at the moment.
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