Tiger Woods hits a shot so bad he can only laugh
There has been something oddly captivating about watching Tiger Woods go from one of the most fearsome and competitive golfers in the known universe to … just another guy.
Obviously, foibles in his personal life and multiple back injuries have teamed up with age and attrition to sap Woods of much of his talent.
But it’s just been a strange sight to see him seemingly embrace being an ordinary professional golfer.
Case in point: Woods’ reaction to a tee shot gone horribly awry at the 2018 Honda Classic is nothing like the stone-faced grimace Tiger showed during, say, the 2008 U.S. Open.
Granted, 10 years is quite a bit of time and people can certainly change.
And yet, despite it being 20 years since he last won an NBA championship, it’s hard to imagine Michael Jordan would ever laugh about himself in the midst of a comeback attempt.
Woods had been his usual inconsistent self during the first round at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
When he came upon the sixth hole of the course, he opted to take a risk by pulling out his driver.
It was significant enough of a gamble for the announcers to openly wonder about the move.
The 479-yard par-4 isn’t a particularly befuddling course.
Per PGA Tour stats, 61 percent of golfers finish with a par or birdie on that particular hole.
That being said, Woods’ decision to switch to a driver couldn’t have really led to a more disastrous start to the hole.
It was, quite literally, laughable.
Did it ever not look (or sound) like a par?! 😆#QuickHits pic.twitter.com/3GrUK511IY
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) February 22, 2018
The drive sliced hard to the right.
Innocent bystanders ducked their heads in fear.
And all Tiger could do was laugh at himself.
Fortunately for Woods, he was able to salvage the horrid start and finish the hole with a par.
Despite a slew of birdies and pars, he finished the first round even thanks to a double-bogey on hole 3 and a bogey on hole 16.
Alex Noren and Webb Simpson were tied for the lead at 4-under.
The Honda Classic runs from Thursday through Sunday.
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