Tiger woods made a quadruple bogey on the par 3 12th hole at #TheMasters. #TigerWoods
Woods, 44, was well out of contention when he reached the 12th on Sunday, but what happened over the ensuing minutes — hitting three balls in Rae’s Creek — was shocking nonetheless.
Fooled by the wind, Woods said, his 8-iron tee shot hit on the green but spun back into the water.
Then, after a penalty drop, and playing from behind Rae’s Creek and 70 yards from the pin, Woods hit another shot that hit on the green and came back into the water. After another drop, his fifth shot went over the green into the back right bunker.
Facing an awkward stance for his sixth shot, Woods bladed the ball out of the sand and saw it skitter across the green and into the water. He took a penalty drop in the sand and got his eighth shot onto the green, then two-putted for a 10.
It’s the only double-digit score of his pro career and exceeded his previous career-worst 9 that he made on the third hole of Muirfield Village Golf Club during the 1997 Memorial.
Woods’ previous highest score at the Masters was an 8 twice, both on par-5s — the 15th hole of the second round in 2013 and the eighth hole of the first round in 1999.
“I committed to the wrong wind,” he said. “The wind was off the right for the first two guys, and then when I stepped up there, it switched to howling off the left. And the flag on 11 was howling off the left. I didn’t commit to the wind, and I also got ahead of it and pushed it, too. Because I thought the wind would come more off the right and it was off the left. And that just started the problem from there.
