Tiger Woods Score: Strong dribbles highlight a thrilling performance in Round 3 of the Genesis Invitational
After a squeak inside the cut, Tiger Woods played his best round of the week on Saturday in Round 3 as he climbed several places on the Genesis Invitational leaderboard after 4 under 67.
Woods, who will now have a late-morning tee time in the final round on Sunday, has no chance of winning at the Riviera but is nonetheless excited on Saturday with two birdies in the previous nine (nine) later on the course) and an early eagle on his 10th hole (first par-5 on the course).
This is Tiger’s first eagle since the Genesis Invitational 2020. You know, before the pandemic started.
After a fireworks display in 1st place, Woods ended his round with another birdie in 5th to bring it down 5 points down the day, at which point he had his second best round. than anyone in the field during the day. Think about that. On a weekend at one of the PGA Tour’s most complex golf courses, someone who hadn’t played tournament golf in seven months was flying to a second-highest score at one of the best golf courses. How remarkable.
Woods finished with three pars and a bogey to be in the top 30 on the leaderboard by the time he finished.
With a score of under 3 for the tournament, Woods is currently outperforming six of the top 30 players in the world along with those who missed out.
- Tyrrell Hatton (-2)
- Sepp Straka (-2)
- Tony Finau (-1)
- Tom Kim (-1)
- Sungjae Im (-1)
- Xander Schauffele (E)
What worked for Woods on Saturday? Well, his short game is much cleaner than the first two days, which is always helpful. An example of this is on the par-3 6th hole, where he hit a bad tee but easily went up and down from a potentially precarious position (any position that is not precarious at all). 6th hole?) to win three easy points.
But, the real reason is that he hits the ball more like the 2003 Tiger than the 2023 Tiger. Woods finished in the top 20 in the field in both drive and approach on Saturday and made his way around the Riviera with shots like you see above at first — a 191-long dart yard barely lands on the lawn and curves toward the stick like he’s guiding it with a remote from the fairway.
In other words, these are not shots that a 47-year-old man with a broken back and a leg that requires hours of treatment every night should hit.
However, here we are. Tiger Woods has a legitimate chance to finish in the top 10 at the Genesis Invitational on Sunday on his first PGA Tour starting since Fall 2020. Tiger Woods! I thought making the list this weekend would be a win, but now he looks like he could make the top 10 (or better). If he scores like he did on Saturday then it is almost certain that this will happen.
Perhaps Tiger’s most important move on Saturday, however, did not appear on the track or on the leaderboards. After a birdie on par-5 on the 17th hole, Woods approached a young fan behind the green, handed her a signed glove and marked the sign she had with a box next to “meet Tiger Woods”.
While Woods isn’t actually playing for a title this weekend, and likely won’t be for the rest of his career, he’s still playing for anything else. For himself, for his friends, for the Tour, for those special people who show up for a glimpse. Perhaps, to some extent, a combination of all of that. It is noteworthy that on Saturday they all got exactly what they wanted to see.
