18 strokes was Woods’ deficit at +7 that night at the clubhouse before his final 18 holes on Sunday. Scheffler, who started much later, improved on the first half of the course with four birdies and only one bogey to -11.
Victory was Woods’ goal
14 months ago, Woods nearly lost his right leg as a result of a serious car accident. “I’m lucky to still be alive“, he said. For the Masters in Augusta in far eastern Georgia, he still wanted his sixth triumph – he felt in the form for it, he said.
Little of that was seen on Saturday. On his second lap on Friday, the 46-year-old was still struggling with strong winds. On Saturday, wearing a white sweater, he opened Tea Olive again with a bogey, which he immediately made up for on the left-handed second dogleg hole (par 5).
The old master even weakened on what was actually his best part of the course
On the par 4 hole “Magnolia”, where Woods bogeyed on Saturday, he even needed six strokes this time – four of them putts. Bogeys followed on the nine and in his actually at least slightly better second half on the eleven, the 16 and the 17. The double bogey at the end then fitted into the picture.
Woods last won the Masters in 2019, back then with severe back pain. The German veteran Bernhard Langer (Anhausen) failed at the cut after two rounds this year.
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