"This is not progress."
/Gary Van Sickle on Tiger's three fairway and seven green second round at the WGC Bridgestone.
He hacked out of the rough at the ninth, his final hole, and couldn't reach the green in two. He pitched his third shot to 15 feet and missed the putt.
The disturbing thing about his recent play is that Woods has struggled with all parts of his game. It appeared that he found something in his swing at the British Open, where he "drove it on a string," in his words, but he struggled with his putting. For two days at Firestone, both his putting and his ballstriking have been off.
Steve Elling reviewed the round and noted this:
He couldn't escape fast enough afterward, as evidenced by the scene on his final hole. As Woods finished up with a bogey, one Akron Police Department officer in the security contingent whispered in the ear of another: "He's signing his card and then he's out."
That's exactly what happened. For the second day in a row, after noting that he hasn't been practicing as much as he used to and that it might be contributing to his struggles, Woods didn't go to the range to work on his swing issues.