Tiger Woods immediately switched his focus to the season’s remaining majors after enlisting the help of his son Charlie before his 100th round in the Masters. (More Sports News)
Charlie was pictured seemingly giving his dad some swing tips on the practice range at Augusta National, advice even a 15-time major🐠 champion may have welcomed following a demor🅷alising third round of 82.
That was the 48-year-old’s worst score 🧸in the Masters by four shots and meant an early tee time on Sunday alongside Neal Shipley, the only amateur to make the cut.
Woods started in style with a 36ꦰ0-yard drive on the par-five second to help set up a straightforward birdie, but bogeyed the third after his chip fꦡrom short of the green failed to climb the steep slope and rolled back to his feet.
Worse was soon to come on the fifth as a wild drive into the tre𒉰es resulted in an unplayable lie and meant Woods had to be driven back to the tee 🎉to hit another ball, leading to a triple-bogey seven.
Another bogey on the sixth and three subsequent pars took Woods to the turn in 40, the same score he op🌱ened with in 1997 before covering the back nine in 30 on his way to a 12-shot win.
It was also five shots worse than playing partner Shipley, butไ Woods typically refused to throw in the towel and covered the back nine in 37 to return a closing 77.
Woods had previously targeted pl🅺aying one tournament a month this year, with the remaining majors – the US PGA, US Open and Open Championship – the obvious targets.
“This is a golf course I knew going into it so I’ve got to do my hoဣmework going forward at Valhalla and Pinehurst and Troon, but that’s kind of the game-plan,” Woods said.
“I heard there were some changes at the next couple of𓂃 sites so I’ve got to get up there early and check them out.”
Despite finishing last of the 60 players to make the weekend, Woods did at least make a reco𒊎rd 24th consecutive cut and insisted: “It was a goo🅘d week all around.
“I think that coming in not having played a full tournament in a very long time it was a good fight Thursday 🐼and Friday, unfortunately yesterday didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted to.
“It doesn’t✱ take much to gꦡet out of position here. Unfortunately, I got out of position a lot yesterday and a couple times today.
“Today, the rouꦑnd that Tom (Kim, who shot 66) is playing is what I thought I had in my system and I just didn’t produce it.”
Woods finished his round an hour before the final pairing of Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa teed 🦩off, Schef🎃fler having birdied the 18th in Saturday’s third round to hold a one-shot lead over the two-time major champion.
A birdie on the third briefly doubled Scheffler’s advanওtage, but the world number one promptly bogeyed the next after misjudging the wind and failing to get up and down from ov🌄er the green.
S🔴cheffler was also unable to save par from a bunker on the seventh and fell back into a four-way tie for the lead with M💦orikawa, Max Homa and Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg, who had birdied the second and seventh to continue his hugely impressive major championship debut.
