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I It was a day of madness at Carnoustie, the kind that cracked Scottish summer dwellers. It was the time you remember family vacations, the kind in which you stay out only if you can go wrong thinking that it is not so bad. Tiger Woods suffered the worst, and it seemed like he was trying to convince himself that he was also enjoying it.
Woods never seems to have as much fun on the course. He could smile when he made a birdie, but otherwise he makes the golf look a dark and serious affair. On Friday, he scowled as a man who ran for the bus and then discovered that he did not have the fare.
The crowd, however, lights up wherever he goes. There is no more popular player on the field this week. Even his partner Russell Knox, originally from Inverness, did not get half of Woods' support. The American says the cheers are a little stronger than those he is used to. "You know, it's amazing," he said after his turn. "Obviously, I played well in Scotland, and I have not played at the Open Championship for a few years, so it's fantastic to have the support we've had. people who came in the rain today to support us, it is very much appreciated. "
Sometimes, however, everything gets a little too much. As at the 2nd, where Woods' tee shot flew right, and found himself in a thick rough on the downhill slope of a bank on the edge of the fairway. It was a lie that would make Donald Trump blush. Woods assessed it as the crowd gathered around, eager to glimpse. He decided to have his younger Joe LaCava command them, back and forth. They were sure that there was a line somewhere. LaCava clearly wanted everyone to get rid of it, but the pack was as thick as the flies, some thicker, and did not move.
LaCava shrugged and Woods prepared to try this ridiculous shot on the slope and over their heads. The bank was so steep that, since he was standing at the foot of it, he was taking almost a baseball swing at the thing. The ball flew to the ankle in a grove of fans 30 meters ahead, seemed to ricochet over some shins and knees, then rolled back into the rough. "I kept moving them in. If you noticed, I moved them about 40 meters," Woods said later. "Yeah, I was very, very lucky that it was far enough out there where I had a full hold in the green."
Still, Woods dropped a shot there, despite a superb approach and a good long putt that left him a tap-in. Then he followed dropping another to the 3rd, where he outclassed a birdie putt and left a delicate second coming back from 6ft, which stopped on the lip. So Woods finished two out of three and went down the rankings. "Not exactly the best start," he said. And then, a bit of old magic. He recovered the two loose shots with back-to-back birdies at the 4th and 5th, one with a 9ft putt and another with a putt of twice that.
After the second of them, Woods even jumped a little hitch … kick in the celebration. Then, just when it seemed like the weather was going to break, everything got worse and the rain fell harder than ever. Woods was out of the tee at the next two holes, and had to play outside. So he was back in a hustle and bustle. He dropped a shot in the 9th when his chip stopped 5ft shy and he took two putts. He picked her up with a birdie on the 11th, where he made his putt after a good approach. Then he made another birdie at the 14th hole par-5, where he hit a superb five-iron on the front of the putting green.
Woods could have made an eagle there but the putt just missed on the right. The same thing happened when he had another birdie opportunity on 18. In between, there was another bogey at 16 years old. So he finished the same day, again, with four bogeys and four birdies. "I played a little better yesterday," he said. "Today, it was not quite as good but I ended up birdieing it by five.So that is positive.At this moment, I have six years and at the end of the day, I think I'll be more than that, it'll be a pretty tight ranking, and I'm definitely in it. "He feels the rankings are so tight that there will be 10 men in the running Sunday.
He will have to play better than that on Saturday when he will be part of it.
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