Perspective: Saturday at the Masters was both an extreme example of how weather can alter a golf tournament and an absolutely typical example of how difficult this is for Woods, now and forever, Barry Svrluga writes.
up and down the hills of Augusta National Golf Club, regardless of the results. And at times, it’s just flat-out, turn-your-head-away hard to watch.
“I wish I get a chance to play to play two more rounds,” Woods said, standing under an umbrella, Saturday midmorning. At that point, maybe he even meant it. He had finished his second round bogey-bogey and sat at 3 over par, outside the top 50 players and those tied with them. To earn 36 more holes, either Justin Thomas, Woods’s good pal, or South Korea’s Sungjae Im would have to fall from 2 over to 3 over or worse, moving the cut line. Both did.
The problem is he becomes more banged up as the day and the week advance. Drop a rested Woods from a helicopter to any golf shot on this course, and he could execute it. Make him walk to those shots 280-some times over four days, and it becomes increasingly difficult.Woods telegraphed the potential for struggles earlier in the week.
Scared of a 47-year-old man with a fused spine and a robotic leg? It’s still real, even if maybe it shouldn’t be. He needs too much rest and recovery to play very many tournaments at all — this is his fourth in the last calendar year. And he can’t practice enough to be sharp, even for those.Onward. Because Augusta officials wanted to squeeze in as much golf as possible Saturday, they sent the field off for the third round in threesomes from both the first and 10th tees.
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