Tiger Woods Leads Tour Finale By 3 After Dominating The Field On Saturday
Folks, welcome to 2007. Today was clinical, vintage, prime time Tiger. Something we haven’t seen since 2013, and a feeling we haven’t felt since the mid-2000s. Tiger Woods was on in every facet of the game. He striped it, he dialed it, he rolled it. We’ve become accustomed to Tiger always missing something — he either can’t hit fairways, can’t make putts, gets off to slow starts, or cools off late to come up short.
Not this week. Not so far.
My favorite sign? He again ripped one right down central on the opening hole, then poured it in for birdie.
SIX birdies on his first 7 holes. Six!
Here he is on 4.
On 5.
On 7.
He did bogey the 230-yard par-3 ninth but turned it around with a few birdies on the back.
On the 16th, where he made double yesterday, he again slapped it around but saved bogey with a miraculous chip.
A 65 when teeing off in the final group, tied for the lead. Solid. Lowest round of the day. Solid, and it could’ve been even better.
Tiger averaged 304.5 yards off the tee today, hit 71% of fairways, and had 2.97 strokes-gained putting.
Tomorrow, we get Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in the final group. Tiger, the greatest player of all time, looking for his first win in 5 years against Rory, the top major winner of his generation.
Fun. See you tomorrow.
