Tiger Woods cards an 82 to mark the worst round of his Major career

Tiger Woods shot an 82 in round 3 of the 2024 Masters.

It was a day to forget for the five-time champion who tumbled down the leaderboard with a 10-over-par third-round horror show.

The one saving grace for the man who has made a record-breaking 24 consecutive cuts at the tournament is that his ‘rusty’ 82 in Saturday’s third round didn’t fall on his 100th Masters appearance.

That milestone will arrive for Tiger Woods on Sunday, who insists he will dust himself off and get himself ready to go again.

“My team will get me ready. It’ll be a long night and long warm-up session, but we’ll be ready,” said Tiger who was able to accept the worst performance of his Major career for what it was.

Two battling performances against the toughest test Augusta has thrown in several years, combined with having played hardly any competitive golf over the past 12 months, made Tiger’s +1 score at the halfway point all the more impressive.

While the winds had settled somewhat for ‘moving day’, the iconic course was just as unplayable, having been dried out to the point that attacking pins and judging lag putts effectively was near on impossible.

Asked to comment on the biggest challenge he faced during the third round, Woods chuckled: “The fact that I was not hitting it very good or putting well.

“I didn’t have a very good warm-up session and I kept it going all day today. Just hit the ball in all the places that I know I shouldn’t hit it. I missed a lot of putts. Easy, makeable putts – I missed a lot of them.”

Saturday’s round was the worst Major round of his professional career and only the third time Tiger Woods has failed to break 80 in a Major. The 15-time Major winner shot an 81 during the third round of the 2002 Open Championship and an 80 in the opening round of the 2015 US Open.

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