Tigers Woods Teased But He Didn’t Please
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By DERON SNYDER
The end came right from the start for Tiger Woods on Sunday as his promising prospects at the U.S. Open began disintegrating on the final round’s initial hole. The carnage went like this: bogey, bogey, double bogey, par, bogey, bogey. Just like that, Woods played himself out of contentionafter sharing the lead midway through the tournament.
“The first six [holes], I just didn’t play well at all,” he said after finishing tied for 21st. “I just could never get anything going positively, and I missed the ball in the wrong side a couple times, and that’s all it takes.”
Woods’ final two rounds (75 and 73) were in stark contrast with his opening rounds of 69 and 70, when he really looked like his old self again. He wasn’t the only big-name golfer who struggled to tame San Francisco’s Olympic Club course, but he was the only one shooting for a 15th major championship. He’ll have to wait until the British Open next month for another opportunity, but he wasn’t overly discouraged by his performance.
