Tiger. Fanned pic.twitter.com/lwOkQwGWAV
— Brendan Porath (@BrendanPorath) May 7, 2015 Tiger Woods completely fans par-3 tee shot into the water
The two-time Players champion barely made contact with this ball and brought a previously unexplored hazard into play.
We’ve seen Tiger Woods hit some poor tee shots in the past few months, but this one at the par-3 eighth hole is as bad as it gets. Tiger completely fanned the ball out to the right, damn near whiffing it and putting his ball on the OTHER side of a hazard that didn’t even seem in play.
The 8th hole has been played 1,903 times in @THEPLAYERSChamp since 2003. Tiger is just 12th to hit it into water in span (0.6%).
— Justin Ray (@JustinRayGC) May 7, 2015 The ball was recorded as landing 179 yards out from the tee, which is a good 35 yards short of the target. Tiger’s been shaky with some of his fairway woods off the tee, but this was a fairly basic 4-iron shot. It looked similar to that “near whiff” at Firestone last year. That ball came up 42 yards short of the target on a par-3 at that course.
This was already a difficult par-3, and Woods walked away with a double-bogey 5 after that disaster off the tee.
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