Tiger Watch was in full swing during Tiger Woods' front nine at the Memorial Tournament on Saturday. He drained four birdies through his first seven holes and looked primed to make a charge on moving day.
What a start.@TigerWoods makes the turn three off the lead.#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/TxmFLURpsG
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 1, 2019
Then, it all fell apart.
Tiger began his back nine with a double-bogey on No 10. He would add two more birdies, but canceled them out with a pair of bogeys to fire a back-nine 38 and a 2-under 70 for the round.
Some bad luck with the flatstick highlighted his back-nine struggles.
"I've never seen a round that lipped out more shots than today," Woods said, according to Golf Channel's Tiger Tracker. "Six or seven lip-outs today. It was unreal."
After shooting 70, 72, and 70 through the first three rounds, Woods sits at 4-under for the tournament but is well out of contention.
"I'm so far back, and there's too many guys. I'm not going to win the golf tournament," he admitted. "But hopefully I go out and play a positive round of golf tomorrow, and get something out of my round like I haven't done the first three days."
