Tiger Woods has had an up-and-down first round at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, hitting some near-perfect shots and some truly awful shots. Woods almost holed-out from the fairway at both the 5th and 8th hole, and his irons have been pretty solid.
Tiger Woods ‘whiffs’ iron shot 42 yards short of target, curses fly
From this distance and with this club, this 5-iron is as ugly a miss as you’ll ever see from Tiger.
Gregory Shamus
But on a couple occasions, he’s missed badly and erupted in anger. His worst shot so far was probably his tee ball at the seventh, a 5-iron to a hole measuring about 219 yards. As the Golf Channel crew put it, Woods “whiffed” it, just popping his ball out to the right some 42 yards short, according the PGA Tour’s shot tracker.
Again, he was 42 yards short of the target on a par-3.
Given all the great irons he’d hit around that one, an emphatic “God dammit” on the follow-through isn’t unexpected.
Despite that awful tee shot, he’d still wedge up on the green and clean up his par.
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