Tiger says tight back no biggie
Woods overcomes rough Memorial start to finish even-par
DUBLIN, Ohio – One thing or another keeps holding Tiger Woods back. Now add a tight back to the list. In his eight starts in his return to the game, one piece of the puzzle has kept Woods from being whole. Earlier this year, he couldn’t find the planet with his driver. Then he misfired repeatedly with his short irons in the Masters. Then his putting was miserable in Charlotte.
Momentum was hard to sustain as he tried to find the rhythm of playing professional golf again, such as when Woods had Bay Hill rocking on Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational before driving his ball out of bounds on the
70th hole to end his chances. Two poor sand wedges, the second that found the
H2O on the famous island green at TPC Sawgrass, silenced his late charge in The Players Championship.
And in Thursday’s first round of the Memorial Tournament, Jack Nicklaus’ annual gathering of the game’s best players at Muirfield Village where See TIGER, Page 4C