Woods boosted by third-round surge at Riviera

Tiger Woods practically posted an albatross whereas capturing one of many lowest third-round scores on the PGA Tour’s Genesis Invitational to the delight of his large gallery.

Woods jumped 32 spots up the leaderboard after carding a four-under-par 67 at Riviera, decrease than each different participant besides Denny McCarthy (64) and three-shot chief Jon Rahm (65).

The spherical left Woods tied twenty sixth at three-under – 12 photographs behind Rahm – in his first begin of the season and all of the extra spectacular contemplating he performed solely 9 aggressive rounds final yr after sustaining traumatic accidents to his proper leg in a 2021 automobile accident.

Few might have probably anticipated a lot from Woods contemplating he completed his second spherical on Friday having bogeyed three of his ultimate 4 holes and made the lower on the quantity.

But Woods placed on a ball-striking show throughout a spherical that included one eagle, three birdies and a bogey. It was additionally his lowest rating since he returned to motion after his automobile accident.

Woods, who began the spherical on the again 9, reached the flip at two underneath after birdies on his first and fifth holes earlier than turning issues up a notch.

The 15-times main champion delighted the gallery on the 509-yard, par-five first gap with a close to albatross when his second shot from 190 yards settled three toes from the cup to arrange a tap-in eagle.

Woods reached 5 underneath on the day when he drained an 11-foot birdie putt on the fifth gap earlier than giving a stroke again on the seventh the place he missed the inexperienced together with his strategy shot.

When requested if this week’s efficiency would possibly persuade him to play one other occasion forward of the April 6-9 Masters Woods, who admitted to feeling a “bit on the sore side”, didn’t rule out the chance.

“Hopefully, tomorrow go out and play a good one, post this event, we’ll go ahead and reassess everything and see where we are, see how I recover from a full tournament,” stated Woods.

“I haven’t done this in a while. The last time I did it was at The Open Championship, so it’s been a while. Hopefully, the body will still feel good sometime later next week. As of right now, recovery time will be fun.”