As Tiger Woods drove to the SoFi Middle for Tuesday evening’s TGL match, he couldn’t assist however get emotional. The final time he was there, his mom, Kultida, was in attendance, watching her son play.
She handed away seven days later, which led Woods to withdraw from the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines the next week. On the time of his withdrawal, Woods stated that he wanted extra time to course of his mom’s passing. He was having a troublesome time on Tuesday evening too.
“I had a very arduous time getting right here after which reliving all of the moments that we’ve had, my mother, how excited she was to have Charlie drive her right here,” Woods stated after the match.
“So these are some nice moments and nice reminiscences. It’s been a tough course of.”
Woods appeared like he had not touched a membership in weeks. He had some huge misses and located a number of penalty areas. He missed a brief putt and left a bunker shot within the sand. However the second of the match got here on the thirteenth gap, the place Woods had an eye-opening psychological gaffe. He confronted 199 yards for his second shot however thought he had solely 99 yards left, resulting in a hilarious albeit awkward second for the 15-time main winner.
“That was one of the vital embarrassing issues to ever occur,” Woods stated.
“I can’t consider that simply occurred.”
Cameron Younger, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Rickie Fowler led New York Golf Membership to a 10-to-3 victory over Woods, Kevin Kisner, and Tom Kim within the ninth match of TGL’s inaugural season. Regardless of the lopsided rating, the win gave New York its first of the yr.
“Undoubtedly one thing we wanted after the primary two matches, having not received very many holes in any respect,” Fowler stated.
“That was what we had been hoping for, and it was good to see all of it come collectively.”
Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
