It tied for the highest score in Masters history, and the highest score on the 15th, “beating” the 11s of Masashi (Jumbo) Ozaki, Ben Crenshaw and Ignacio Garrido.
There are a host of storylines for this year’s Masters. But since his runner-up at the Valspar Championship, the Tiger narrative is the only one that’s mattered.
Installed as the 8-1 favourite to win the Masters next month, Tiger Woods exhibited a potpourri of strokes during Thursday’s opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational to validate the odds-makers’ growing confidence in him.