Round 4: PGA Championship
August 12 2012
11:31 am
Woods: ‘Played myself back” into PGA
By Helen Ross, PGATOUR.COM
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Tiger Woods has 14 major championship titles on his resume but never one where he has come from behind to win.
If Woods is to creep closer to Jack Nicklaus’ all-time record of 18 majors on Sunday by winning his fifth PGA title, he’ll have to buck that trend. The man who leads the FedExcup standings will start the final round trailing Rory McIlroy by five strokes.
Woods was the second-round co-leader, just as he was at the U.S. Open earlier this year. He fell back into the pack, though, when he went out in 40, making three bogeys on Saturday before play was suspended and coming back this morning to miss another par putt, on the way to a 74.
Many, likely including Woods himself, thought the overnight suspension would allow the world No. 2 the chance to steady his game.
"Unfortunately I missed the putt, so it didn’t really do much," Woods said. "I figured the goal was to just come back out here and get to even par for the day, somehow grind it out and get back to even par, and I had it to I was 1-over par with two holes to go and dropped a shot at 17.
"But I played myself back into the tournament."
Woods, who leads the PGA TOUR with three wins this year, was encouraged by the way he fought back on the back nine with three birdies and just one shot dropped to par. He only hit eight of 14 fairways and 10 of 18 greens in regulation.
Woods will play with Vijay Singh for the second straight day, along with Peter Hanson, in the 1:23 p.m. ET group.
"I had a few good looks at it today, and I just couldn’t believe how slow these greens were this morning," Woods said. "I don’t know if they cut them or not, but they were just a lot slower. They’re slower than the putting green. Vijay (Singh) and I were talking about that a little bit today, and it was surprising that they’re not the same speed. We both struggled getting the balls to the hole."
Woods, who was on the putting green at dawn on Sunday, will likely spend some extra time there during the break. He took 30 putts on Sunday after using 22 and 26 in the first two rounds, respectively.
"You know, just give myself chances, give myself looks," Woods said when asked about his strategy for the final round. "This golf course you can take a double and a triple in a heartbeat without hitting bad shots.
“Just keep myself there where I’m right in it with a few holes to go because, as we saw at the last major championship we played, anything can happen."
Hahaha, talk about living in denial.
Nobody caught up to Tiger yet. If he plays like he can , he wins everything. Its harder for him to win if he s not on top of his game. He is still contending and not playing his best. Thats the difference between him and the rest. The rest only contend when they re at their best. TIGER WOODS IS THE GREATEST GOLFER OF ALL TIMES!!!!
Face it Mako, Lucifer has abandoned him, and he just can’t make it on his own.
The sight of Tiger Woods is making me cream my panties.
Would anyone like to hear me whitter on and on, and on, about Tigger Woods and his swing circa 1996 to present?
I haven’t ga$$ed on about it for a whole day, and I really need to grind on about it to someone.
At the same time I could also show you my stamp collection?
i played myself back into the tourn til i got stuck in the windmill and the clown mouth. darn side boards have no bounce and the putt skipped all the way over the dirt mound and into the fish pond.
wagh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAron are u ok this morning. only 4 small sentences. i am shocked.
Even though he might have “played his way back in,” I was amazed at how tentative he was with 20 ft putts for birdies on the back nine when he was so far behind the leaders. The greens are slow, and he should have taken better runs at those than he did. If anyone gets the blade going in the afternoon with little wind, I think there might be a 65 out there…
If you say so Eldrick.
If all of you dislike Tiger so much, why spend your time commenting. Takes a lot more energy to be negative!. The 15 players that are under par on the Leaderboard have a combined number of 9 majors compared to Tiger’s 14! That says a lot. I honestly hope Tiger comes from behind just to shut you you naysayers and haters.
Tiger started the round tied for first – finished 5 strokes behind the leader. Yep, he has played his way back into contention.
The Tiger haters have no life…or golf game! They probably wouldn’t break 100…on their good days!
Only a “Scott”(alternatively a “Norman” for you older folks) from Rory, can let anyone into the heat of the battle. Wet greens usually exclude Tiger, as he quite simply sucks on slow greens. A baked Sunday in 90+ F would’ve given him a 25% of slinging a 68 out there and then have everybody else struggle to 71+ rounds, giving him a Win by 1 or playoff, but now?..No chance. Rory or ironically enough, Scott, if Rory pulls a Scott.
Sorry to burst the Tiger bubble, looks like crash and burn. No.2 Poulter look the deal.
Tommy I will play Tiger for 1,000 a hole par 4 or 5, only off the tee, we both have to use driver and it is a K for whose ball is in the fairway. I consistently hit 12 of 14 fairways every day at least, lots of time all 14, Tiger hits only 50 percent so he would owe me 7 grand after we finished. Shut up you who think Tiger had got his mo jo back.
Tiger, no short game, no putter, he and Phil couldn’t find a fairway in a walmart parking lot. I have agreed with Greg Norman, Tiger will not win another major. yes he can play Arnie’s and Jack’s tournaments but the real tough venue’s, forget it, this is all 4 majors this year when he had not had a single round on sat or sunday under par, hello!!
Tiger insults our intelligence by telling us that going from tied to the lead to five strokes back is “playing your way back into contention”, yet somehow you’re being negative if you reject that position. Really? OK.
Well said Blaine.
Gail was predicting a 65 for Sunday, so she seemed to be OK with that, but not OK if a young Northern Irishman shot a 66.
Ironic and Hypocritical.
Tiger and VJ couldn’t adapt to the speed on the greens? Aren’t they Professionals? Isn’t Tiger the winner of 14 Majors?
Even 12handicappers can adjust to green speed in a matter of 3 or 4 holes.
Tiger’s lost his putting stroke, he can’t hit his driver, he can’t even hit a green from a 100 yards. The only game he’s got left is 2 iron stingers off the tee and 5 iron approach shots to the green for a 45ft birdie. Yeah, that’s the game that will win you 5 majors.
I thought the caecmrmiol was interesting on several levels.For Tiger, it certainly emphasized his commitment to returning to his Buddhist philosophy. The retrospection and the communication with his deceased father. So some will say this confirms his promise to work on his personal issues. If you put any credence to the internet traffic about how Elin viewed the ad, it was not so positive. Some reports indicate that she was already upset at his early return to golf and was not happy with the ad. It may be the event that pushes her toward filing for divorce. So time will only tell whether this was a good move for Tiger personally.For Nike, it has certainly generated a lot of buzz. Some say that imitation is the highest form of compliment. If so, Nike definitely has a lot of compliments. Internet tracking firms are reporting that there are more than a million more views of parodies of the ad than the ad itself. So from a memorable marketing ad it clearly was successful. The second part, however, is Nike’s image better or worse now than before the ad? For me personally, it is worse for two reasons. First, if it is true that Elin was not happy about this ad, and thought it was in poor taste, then to me that shows that Nike was only concerned about rebuilding Tiger’s and Nike’s image and not helping him truly restore his relationship with his family. Second, the ad came across very new age to me and so left a bad taste in my mouth for Nike as pushing an agenda that I don’t believe in.I recognize I may be in the minority so again, time will only tell if this was a good marketing move for Nike.
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