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The 2020 BMW Championship did not perform golfers any favors Thursday, least of all Tiger Woods.
The 15-time predominant winner sits in a tie for 35th after carding a 3-over 73 in the gap spherical of the FedEx Cup’s second leg. Without reference to a shaky day, Woods remains firmly in contention, six strokes motivate of chief Hideki Matsuyama.
Staunch three golfers take a seat below par at Olympia Fields, which performed mercurial and agency with sophisticated gusts of wind to boot.
Woods managed to quandary by at even par over his first 15 holes despite his struggles off the tee and alongside with his putter, nonetheless things fell apart down the stretch. Tiger overlooked three straight par putts interior 10 toes, including one from loyal four toes out on No. 8, to stroll into the clubhouse aggravated with a 73.
“This golf course is position up extra esteem a U.S. Starting up than it’s far a abnormal Tour match,” Woods informed newshounds coming into the match. “Nonetheless this is the playoffs. It be speculated to be onerous. … Pars will be at a top rate, inserting the ball in the golf green and trying to preserve the ball in the actual model spots. The greens are rapidly, onerous and agency for now. The weather is speculated to be essentially sizzling the next three days and maybe breaking Friday evening. Nonetheless until then this goes to be a essentially sophisticated golf course.”
For the spherical, the PGA measured that Woods misplaced 0.6 strokes alone on the inexperienced and hit loyal two-thirds of his greens in regulation, owing most of that to unfortunate drives.
Since profitable two of the first three BMW Championships (2007 and 2009), Woods has no longer obtained the match.
His first-spherical struggles will create the climb even steeper if Woods hopes to qualify for subsequent week’s Tour Championship. Tiger will need a sixth-achieve-or-higher perform to believe a shot at getting into into the conclude 30 for FedEx Cup elements and qualify for the match.
