Tiger Woods has made another cut on the PGA Tour. That may not seem like much, but we started the season just four months ago with made cuts as the bar. He grinded to make the cut in his first official start at Torrey Pines, and we considered it a success when he did on the number. Those were the parameters and expectations.
Memorial Tournament 2018: Tee times, pairings for Tiger Woods and field for Round 3
Tiger gets a shot at contention on the weekend at Muirfield Village.
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The bar has been raised less than halfway into this amazing comeback season but it’s still a success to have him playing the weekend at the Memorial Tournament again. It’s his first start here in three years and now he’ll get a late-morning tee time alongside Masters winner Patrick Reed (11:20 a.m. ET). Woods has played well enough to have a late weekend tee time, but his putting has been hot garbage. His Friday round really could have been something like a 62 or 63 given the way he was striping the ball but the flatstick let him down time and again in almost incomprehensible ways.
So there are signs of competitiveness and contention there again, despite the horrendous putting. As we saw at Sawgrass, that can come and go in a hurry and if he starts rolling them in for a stretch, a move into the top 10 is likely given the way he’s striking the ball.
Reed idolizes Tiger and has a bit of an obsession with the Cat, wearing the trademark red and black on Sundays as some sort of homage. Now he’s with Nike this year too so it presents a pretty odd dichotomy if they play around each other in a final round — the masses were furious at the Valspar Championship when they discovered this Reed tradition most of the golf diehards already knew about prior.
The two, however, have a good relationship from time spent playing together and with Tiger as a captain of the Ryder and Presidents Cup teams. It’s a comfortable pairing for Woods and the two should make it around Muirfield Village in about four hours if there are no weather delays.
Here’s the full tee sheet for Saturday at the Memorial Tournament:
- 7:30 a.m.: Yuta Ikeda
- 7:35 a.m.: Andrew Landry, Sam Burns
- 7:44 a.m.: Marc Leishman, Chris Kirk
- 7:53 a.m.: Adam Hadwin, Russell Henley
- 8:02 a.m.: Zach Johnson, Yusaku Miyazato
- 8:11 a.m.: Kevin Kisner, Rory McIlroy
- 8:20 a.m.: John Huh, Patton Kizzire
- 8:29 a.m.: Chesson Hadley, Rod Pampling
- 8:38 a.m.: Charles Howell III, Andrew Dorn
- 8:47 a.m.: Robert Streb, Russell Knox
- 8:56 a.m.: David Lingmerth, Brice Garnett
- 9:05 a.m.: Ted Potter Jr., Shane Lowry
- 9:14 a.m.: Brian Stuard, Pat Perez
- 9:23 a.m.: Kevin Tway, Kevin Streelman
- 9:32 a.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, Jhonattan Vegas
- 9:41 a.m.: Rickie Fowler, John Senden
- 9:50 a.m.: Sung Kang, Justin Thomas
- 10 a.m.: Vijay Singh, Emiliano Grillo
- 10:10 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Patrick Rodgers
- 10:20 a.m.: Nick Watney, Kelly Kraft
- 10:30 a.m.: Abraham Ancer, Brian Gay
- 10:40 a.m.: Jamie Lovemark, Anirban Lahiri
- 10:50 a.m.: Ryan Moore, Whee Kim
- 11 a.m.: Branden Grace, Phil Mickelson
- 11:10 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, Louis Oosthuizen
- 11:20 a.m.: Patrick Reed, Tiger Woods
- 11:30 a.m.: Bill Haas, Grayson Murray
- 11:40 a.m.: Peter Uihlein, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
- 11:50 a.m.: Alex Cejka, Tony Finau
- 12 p.m.: Adam Scott, Rory Sabbatini
- 12:10 p.m.: Martin Laird, Tom Hoge
- 12:20 p.m.: Julian Suri, Luke List
- 12:30 p.m.: Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley
- 12:40 p.m.: Si Woo Kim, Dustin Johnson
- 12:50 p.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Ryan Armour
- 1 p.m.: Gary Woodland, Justin Rose
- 1:10 p.m.: Beau Hossler, Henrik Stenson
- 1:20 p.m.: J.B. Holmes, Bryson DeChambeau
- 1:30 p.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Jason Day
- 1:40 p.m.: Byeong Hun An, Wesley Bryan
- 1:50 p.m.: Kyle Stanley, Joaquin Niemann
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