Tiger Woods jumps 32 steps at Genesis Invitational 2023

By the end of the second game, Woods was at T60 with a score of +1, right at the expected cut-off line. With that position, he is not sure about the next round because there are 14 players who have not finished the round, including five players who are around the filter point.

When the team was late to finish the work on the morning of February 18 (local time), Woods went to T58 and entered the 3rd round. This leg, "Super Tiger" went from the par4 10 hole and immediately scored a birdie, from a stroke of 4.5 distances. meters. At the par3 14 hole, he birdie again, this time 7.3 meters away.

Halfway through, Woods hasn't scored a bogey. On the first par5 hole, 509 yards long, he hit the rough grass on the right side of the fairway, 190 yards from the flag.

In that position, Woods nearly scored the albatross with a 1 in 6 million chance of hitting. The second shot into the green, rolled across the hole and stopped 0.9 meters away for the former world No. 1 to score an eagle.

It was Woods' 189th eagle on the PGA Tour, ninth at the Genesis Invitational.

The remaining eight holes, he considers "break even", when birdie on hole 5 makes up for bogey on hole 7. Technical analysis shows that Woods hit nine of the 14 fairways and went to the green according to the 12-hole standard, achieving a much higher performance than the other two. head ring. With the 3rd round score at -4, Woods went up to -3 and ranked T26 while Jon Rahm monopolized the top of the table (-15). Right behind Rahm is Max Homa with a score of -12.

Over the past two years, Woods has abandoned his usual schedule on the PGA Tour and only competed in three majors because he had to recover from cervical vertebrae surgery and had an accident that nearly lost his leg just a day after handing the cup to Homa in the role. maintain the Genesis Invitational 2021.

This year, he still presides over the tournament and fights to reopen the journey on the PGA Tour's regular schedule, after an absence of 844 days.

The 1992 tournament was called the Los Angeles Open, marking Woods's 17th birthday and his amateur debut in the US first-class golf arena. Since then, he has gone through 14 periods with the best record being runner-up in 1998. And so, the owner of a record of 82 PGA Tour titles, including 15 majors, still lacks the Genesis Invitational.