Cliffy6745 said:

Fox isn't showing enough shots.  Get off this featured group.

Yep.  Enough of Tiger.  He's 8 over and not making the cut.

If DJ keeps this up he may run away and hide. 

bootlegger10 said:

Tiger is exposed this week.  We found out where his game is at and it is not ready.

Flashes of brilliance with a ton of inconsistency. It's something different every tournament. Dude just needs to play.  If you had said he'd go T23, cut, 12, T2, T5, T32, T55, T11, T23 for the full season, people would have been pumped.  Expectations for the guy are just insane. 

I fucking love the US Open

Indifference71 said:

Poulter's meltdown on 16 was glorious!!

Glorious

“Our whole careers are pretty much measured as if you can win four times a year,” Woods said.

Then he dropped this little reminder of how it used to be: “One year, I did it three times.”

A reporter asked him, whether he’s convinced he could do it again.

“Absolutely,” he replied.

Why? he was asked

“Have you seen the way I’ve been swinging?” he shot back, smiling.

That was a glimpse into that fantasy land between the ears – where denial and hope, arrogance and obstinance, feed on each other. That mindset might have helped make Woods a great champion, but now it could be a disservice.

Fact is, Tiger swung it well this week – not brilliantly, but well. He hit 71 percent of fairways in two rounds, and 44 percent of greens in regulation.

Those aren’t major-winning accuracy stats. Dustin Johnson, who is comfortably leading this tournament and played in the exact same weather conditions as a member of Woods’ threesome, hit 79 percent of fairways and 71 percent of greens.

Yet to hear Woods talk, the ball striking is there and all he needs to do is rediscover his putting stroke. Then it’s 2000 all over again.

“If I would have putted [at Shinnecock] the way I did the beginning of the year with this ball striking, that would be ideal,” he said. “Unfortunately, I just haven’t done that.”

Woods’ work with the flat stick definitely was not good here and hasn’t been good in his last several tour appearances during this 2018 comeback season. But in Woods’ World, it’s never bad enough to ditch the Scotty Cameron putter or hire a putting coach. He’s not relinquishing control or admitting that he might need to make big changes.

While the putter was bad this week, it was Woods’ failure (twice) to put an iron shot safely onto the No. 1 green that sent him home.

The first hole is no cupcake – none of them are here – but it’s hardly impregnable, either. In terms of scoring, it was the second easiest of Shinnecock’s 12 par-4 holes on Thursday.

Yet Woods carded the worst score of the entire field on No. 1 Thursday, a ghastly triple bogey that was triggered by an errant approach that rolled off the back of the green. That led to a chip that rolled back down, followed by a putt that rolled back down, followed by three more putts for a seven.

Playing in a chilly, misting rain Friday morning, Woods put his tee shot in perfect position – middle of the fairway, 157 yards out. But he fanned the approach into deep hay on the right side of the green, a nightmare destination. The ball nestled into the thick, wet grass, and Tiger chopped it out with little hope of it stopping on the green.

It rolled over the opposite side and he had to chip back up. That was followed by a two-putt that left him five-over in two days on an unremarkable hole. And just as he did Thursday, Woods followed that debacle with a bogey on the second.

Woods’ score relative to par bottomed out at 12-over. Then he played his best stretch of the tourney over his final three holes – a par at No. 7 and birdies at Nos. 8 and 9, when the putts rolled in confidently after the pressure was off. (A legendarily clutch player exhibited none of that old trait here.)

So you can pick your favorite rationalization: Tiger was fine on 16 out of 18 holes; he just needs to get the putter going; those last two birdies are a sign of what he can do; he’s farther along than anyone could have hoped in this rebound season after two years on the shelf.

The last one might even be true. But this was a setback for the comeback, and it was impossible for anyone to watch Tiger Woods play Thursday and Friday and envision him winning more majors.

Except for Tiger himself. In his mind, he’s undefeated.

Wobbie said:

Indifference71 said:

Poulter's meltdown on 16 was glorious!!

he seemed a likeable enough chap in his post round interview. why the hate?

IP > TW

No

Ian Poulter is douche personified. Loved seeing that yesterday.

Hoping Rickie can make a charge today.....

Can you fucking imagine if tiger ever did that 

He's gotta be DQ'd right?  That was absurd.