Nightmare for Woods, Woodland grabs lead
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E-mail Shanghai Daily, January 27, 2014
Defending champion Tiger Woods plunged to new depths when he missed a secondary cut on the PGA Tour for the first time after struggling badly in Saturday's third round of the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego.
Though he made the second-round cut by a stroke on Friday after carding a one-under-par 71 on the easier North Course, the world No. 1 was badly out of sorts on a difficult day for scoring as he labored to a 79 on the brutal South layout.
It was his worst ever score at the event, which he has won at Torrey Pines a record seven times, and ensured he would miss the third-round cut for the leading 70 players and ties, giving him the unwanted label of ÔMDF' (made cut, did not finish).
His score matched the second worst of his professional career, and is eclipsed only by the 81 he shot in strong winds and driving rain in the third round of the 2002 British Open at Muirfield.
Woods, whose remarkable playoff win at the 2008 US Open also took place at Torrey Pines, declined to speak to Golf Channel and CBS Sports after he had signed his scorecard, and also turned down requests to talk to reporters.
"I'm done," the 14-time major champion said before signing a few autographs for fans and then being driven away from the course in a van.
Woods, who won last year's Farmers Insurance Open by four shots in a fog-delayed Monday finish, endured a damaging run of back-to-back double bogeys followed by five straight bogeys from the 18th, his ninth hole, to finish at six-over-par 222.
Gary Woodland made five birdies for a 2-under 70 and a one-shot lead over 20-year-old Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman of Australia.
Spieth had a one-shot lead to start the third round and it was gone quickly. He missed a 30-inch par putt on the opening hole and took a double bogey on No. 5.
His biggest putt might have been a 6-footer for par on the 14th, and Spieth looked confident the rest of the way to salvage a 75.
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