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Tiger Woods struggled in his third spherical on the 2022 PGA Championship, carding his career-worst rating on the main.
The 15-time main winner, taking part in in his second main since an nearly 17-month layoff after struggling critical leg accidents in a automobile crash in February 2021, shot a 9-over par 79 at Southern Hills Nation Membership in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Woods made the reduce on Friday by only one shot, displaying glimpses of his excellence to qualify for the weekend.
However his accidents and the fatigue of taking part in 36 holes appeared to meet up with the 46-year-old on Saturday in cool and windy circumstances.
He produced an extended putt to avoid wasting par on his first gap, however needed to accept a bogey on the second.
Issues went from unhealthy to worse on the par three sixth gap with a triple-bogey six, and that was the beginning of a foul run for Woods.
Over the following seven holes, he had six bogeys – together with a run of 5 straight – earlier than his first birdie of his spherical on the fifteenth.
He managed to narrowly keep away from his worst ever rating at a serious – 81 on the 2002 Open at Muirfield.
Woods was frank in his evaluation of his sport afterward, saying he “didn’t do something proper” and “didn’t hit many good photographs.”
“I simply didn’t play effectively. I didn’t hit the ball very effectively, and obtained off to not the beginning I wanted to get off to. I assumed I hit an excellent tee shot down two and ended up within the water, and simply by no means actually obtained any form of momentum on my aspect.”
After the spherical, Woods wasn’t concrete on whether or not he’d be finishing the most important.
“Nicely, I’m sore. I do know that’s for a truth,” he stated. “We’ll do some work and see the way it goes.”