TIGER Woods made shocking four-putt to wreck any outside chance he had a glory at the Genesis Invational.
Woods, 44, who is hosting the tournament , had the unlikely meltdown on the 13th green of the Riviera course in Los Angeles.
The Masters champion has rarely four-putted in his long and illustrious career.
But now he’s gone and done it twice in as many tournaments.
At the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines on his last outing, he four-putted the first green.
The last time Woods made two four-putts in a season was 1998 – his second full season as a professional.
His nightmare on the 13th green played out like this…
- Curling putt for birdie from 20ft 9in that he leaves way past the hole
- A putt from 2ft 4in that lips out and goes way past the hole
- The bogey chance from 3ft 2in never looks like going in
- Finally he holes it from 3ft.
Woods is not playing next week’s WGC-Mexico Championship, and was tight-lipped about his schedule after that.
He said his priority was to peak in April at the Masters, where he will defend his Green Jacket at Augusta National.
In explaining his decision to skip Mexico, he said he was a “little rundown” and did not feel it wise to tee up two weeks in a row just now.
“I feel stiff, but I have weeks like that, especially in the cold mornings like it was the other day,” the 15-times major champion told reporters after shooting five-under-par 76.
“Don’t quite move as well and that’s just kind of how it’s going to go.”
Woods had a spinal fusion operation nearly two years ago and he said his 2020 schedule would be very light, as it was last year, when he played just 15 times, including the Presidents Cup.
He said: “I won’t play a lot more than that just because of the physical toll, and I want to stay out here for just a little bit longer.”
Tiger completed the greatest comeback in golf history last year when he won the Masters at Augusta.
The American bounced back after a humiliating sex scandal, a degrading DUI arrest and four back surgeries to win his fifth green jacket in front of girlfriend Erica Herman, kids Sam and Charlie and mum Kultida.
