The weather wasn’t great in Arizona, but it was much better than it was in 2002 at Muirfield (I was there) when Tiger shot his only other over-eighty round as a pro.
How did it happen? A triple, a couple of doubles, hitting it in the water, hitting it out of bounds, lots of poor chips and putts.
For most of his career, meaning up until the last couple of years, Tiger was the best chipper and putter in the history of golf. Now, I would be embarrassed to chip and putt like Tiger has his last couple of tournaments. And I barely practice, much less make a living by playing golf. Tiger claims to have hit thousands of practice chips since December.
In case you’re wondering, Tiger is dead last out of the 132 players in Arizona.
Here are the “highlights”.
And this tweet below pretty much sums up what appears to be the proverbial “changing of the guard”.
Nothing more telling than this. Picture courtesy of Steve Elling. pic.twitter.com/AjyWr6KoLw
— Alex Miceli (@alexmiceli) January 30, 2015