British Open: Most disappointing performances from Portrush

Tiger Woods

As I wrote about yesterday, Tiger Woods started off by having everyone watching, listening, or having any interest in the golf world get nervous.

He winced after hitting his opening tee shot, and made everyone hold their breath. He seemed to dissuade those worries after starting par-par-par-par.

Tiger finished the day with a 78 and had plenty of work that he was going to need to put in to make the cut. Knowing the cut line was going to be near +1, Tiger was likely going to have to shoot a 65 or so to make the cut.

It ended up that a 65 would’ve been the best score anyone shot all day, tied with four other players. Indeed, that would’ve been enough to get there.

Tiger got everyone’s hopes up by starting off -2 through six holes. A bogey on the par-5 7th really hurt his chances, as Tiger wasn’t able to take advantage of the par 5’s all week. He got it back a bit with back-to-back birdies to start the back nine and was +4 with seven holes left.

Alas, that was the end of good numbers for Tiger. five birdies followed by two bogeys gave way to a finish of 70, leaving Tiger well above the cut line.

A lot of discussions were had before the British Open about Tiger Woods’s schedule heading into the British Open. He was looking to become the first player since Johnny Miller to not play between the U.S. Open and the British Open and win. Instead, he left himself and many disappointed by missing the cut by five strokes.