Tiger Woods was left red-faced by an “embarrassing” membership choice blunder throughout his Jupiter Hyperlinks’ 10-3 TGL loss to New York Golf Membership.
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On the thirteenth gap of the 15-hole match, Woods pumped his drive straight up the center, and over the daunting hole on the chance versus reward par 4 known as Temple, and needed to rapidly head to his bag to seize a membership for his second shot.
He was informed he had 99 yards left to the pin, so the 15-time main winner grabbed a wedge and it hit virtually flush on the quantity, however was left gob smacked because the simulator confirmed his ball pulling up nicely wanting the inexperienced.
His teammate Tom Kim was in stitches, whereas his opponents Cameron Younger, Matt Fitzpatrick and Rickie Fowler have been in disbelief.
This was not a expertise error like amateurs at an area golf simulator centre would declare once they don’t make clear contact, this was a communication error, Woods had 199 yards left.
“I heard 99 yards so I went on the market and hit it 100 yards. One of the crucial embarrassing moments in my {golfing} profession simply occurred,” Woods mentioned on the published.
“I simply screwed up. That was embarrassing.”
Replays confirmed that Woods was informed it was 99 yards, not 199 yards, and regularly apologised to teammates Kim and Kevin Kisner for the rest of the evening.
Fowler in the meantime thought that Woods needs to be grateful his good buddy Justin Thomas was not current for the error, with the New York group letting him off evenly.
“I believe he needs to be glad that JT wasn’t right here as a result of he’d have been throughout him,” Fowler mentioned.
“I’m certain that’ll be used (to poke enjoyable at him). Nothing’s off limits.”
Woods was additionally the butt of a joke by Kim earlier within the evening.
The 22-year-old Korean star was making an attempt his greatest to get Jupiter Hyperlinks again into the competition as Woods and Kisner struggled to get any rhythm going.
On the microphone, Kim was heard summing it up bluntly.
“My previous guys aren’t taking part in very nicely,” he mentioned with a chuckle.
The one-sided contest stood in stark distinction to yesterday’s epic triple-header the place each match got here right down to the ultimate gap.
It was additionally an emotional evening for Woods as he stepped out for the primary time since his mom Kultida handed away earlier this month.
He walked onto the SoFi Centre with son Charlie by his aspect, and earlier than the match begun, the 49-year-old shared that he was nonetheless grieving, and TGL will without end maintain a particular place for him as Kultida was current for his earlier match.
“It’s a course of,” Woods informed ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt. “This was the final time she ever watched me play. It’s a bit emotional coming in right here tonight.”
Earlier within the day, social media was a buzz with hypothesis that US President Donald Trump would attend the match in Florida amid his involvement within the PGA Tour’s negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund to succeed in a merger between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.
However Trump was a no present, though Woods confirmed in the course of the Genesis Invitational on Sunday that he can be concerned in a second assembly with Trump after PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Australian Adam Scott, who’s a participant director, lately attended the White Home.