Inside Tiger’s Mysterious WD & Spieth’s Costly Error | The Genesis Invitational Seen & Heard | Ep. 3

The Genesis Invitational is underway and with the cut looming, the pros brought it all to capture those top spots at Riviera. While Cantlay seamlessly climbed to a 5-shot lead, Spieth and Woods stole the show on Friday, but not for reasons you may think.

Presented by Genesis.

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Timestamps:
0:00-1:06 Intro
1:07-2:16 Tiger’s Ironic Fate
2:17-3:25 Gary Woodland
3:26-4:33 Tiger’s Vintage Look
4:34-5:20 Jason Day
5:21-6:39 Cantlay’s Success
6:40-11:21 Tiger’s Mysterious WD
11:22-11:45 Jordan Spieth’s DQ
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We had two fire trucks pull up one ambulance uh presumably for Tiger Woods and it backed up to the service entrance and um nobody came out Tiger’s uh presumably still in the clubhouse but a stretcher was rolled into the ambulance with nobody on it so still on no whole

Lot um a lot of people standing around a lot of people waiting around but I think it’s a good sign if he’s not leaving in the ambulance [Applause] the thing I’m most interested in we’ve heard about these changes we’ve heard about the the new elevated event series

For so long like I I’m curious to see how this actually takes shape It’s going to be exciting to see how he scores around Riviera and how he looks in his return to a competition so when they first made Signature Events there were going to be no Cuts anywhere and then tiger and Jack Nicholas were like screw that the cut is

Important in golf I’m instituting a cut at my tournament going to come through that hi Shank what what happened there and is that still a shock to the system for you when that happens well my my back was spazzing in the last couple holes and

There was locking up so um I came down and and it didn’t move and I presented hosle first and shanked it when’s the last time you hit a shank tiger I think you can remember com been a while it’s definitely been a while cons other than

Trying to hit flop shots and other kind of weird shots around the greens uh not not from the position I was at what’s funny is that tiger might now miss the cut at the event he insisted there’d be a cut at which would be kind of ironic

Uh but he’s like squarely on the line so maybe one under today he’ll be saved if he shoots over par yeah when he’s not out I’m at the end of the parking lot go about rebuilding your golf swing or relearning those movements after the surgery that’s been a process Butch has

Been huge in that step Mike mik Walker short game guy and then um my caddy it’s been a community we’ve all talking and trying to figure it out um body wasn’t moving very well the last couple months and last week missing the cut talking just I didn’t get a work but I was

Talking talking through the swing send some videos the Butch and uh we figured some things out and today was just I saw some shots I just haven’t seen in a long long time which was nice specifically did you I’ve been I was swaying my body was moving I wasn’t turning properly um

Which is easy to do when you haven’t played in a while start to to sway a little bit so turning you know my speed’s up so now I just got to make sure I finish things I get a little quick a little excited probably to be out there um slow everything down a

Little bit I’m going to keep following Gary see if he can uh build on what he did yesterday best round of the Year yesterday looking to build off it today he hasn’t made a cut yet but he said he found something in his swing and yesterday it looked like it so we’ll see

If he can make the Cut tiger iconic look yes bring it back how quickly did you did you spot it okay I honestly didn’t clock it that quickly because I was over on the eth T box waiting for Rory’s group when I opened my phone and saw that Dylan who’s off

Right now but it’s still very much on was had already had already picked up on it um so I think it’s really cool they did a what Sunday red did a throwback of tiger shirt that he wore here in ’92 it’s blue and red striped um he did it

With light blue pants then almost like light denim looking khakis but today did it with navy but it’s still worked and I kind of hope to see them do a handful of these Throwbacks what which ones you want I think they might be on something number one would obviously be as USM

When with the straw hat are you being interviewed right now guess not anyways with the straw hat and then I was just I went through Getty and they have us like his super old ones were really oversized some funny patterns in there for sure so Sunday red you might be on to

Something wondering like what’s it been like and deal with 7 players um not too not too different to some of the other stuff that we played in before I think um you know when we had the wgc’s we would have limited Fields there no cuts and everything like that so it’s just

Like kind of you know this one’s a little bit different though because there is a little bit there is a cut so you’re kind of cautious I guess it’s the old Master’s cut kind of thing so so um yeah I like I didn’t have to worry about

It this week which was nice but like some of the other guys obviously I I haven’t really you know kept tabs on some of the other guys but like I think yeah it’s it’s nice to be able to play event and think you you you pretty much

Guaranteed to play four four rounds you know this course is kind of made for canle he contended a year ago here ultimately John ROM won um but Klay just kind of like goes about his business plotting can work the ball both ways just like goes at his pace and this is

Kind of a golf course that you have to go at your pace because if you try to go too fast you try to play too aggressive eventually it will reach out and grab you um so it’s no surprise that he’s played well here California kid as well course

Record today or do you do you believe that he doesn’t care well I I haven’t asked Patrick too many questions over the years um um but yesterday I couldn’t help but think like you’re eight under through 14 the course record is 10 under how much thought have you given

To actually shooting a course record at Rivier no it’s not really front of mind just uh trying not even back of M no no I’m not thinking about course records I don’t even know what the course record is around this place 61 61 yeah I I

Didn’t really scare it uh today um no I mean I’m just out there really trying to focus each and every shot I know it’s cliche but that’s the truth Yeah we’re right outside the locker room not bad huh it’s not as bad it’s not as bad no it’s apparently an illness that a tiger is withdrawn with from the tournament with um but we’re very confused because it would take a pretty extreme illness I think to make Tiger

Woods withdraw from the tournament so that’s weird uh waited next to the service entrance for good hour we had two fire trucks pull up one ambulance uh presumably for Tiger Woods and it backed up to the service entrance and um nobody came out Tiger’s uh presumably still in the clubhouse but the

Stretcher was rolled into the ambulance with nobody on it so still don’t know a whole lot um a lot of people standing around a lot of people waiting around but I think it’s a good sign if he’s not leaving in the ambulance it’s been an absolutely

Frantic Rush down here for the last like 45 minutes but nothing’s nothing’s really happening do you think he’s has left or you think he’s still there uh I think he’s still here but he’s he probably just needed an IV or something I don’t think this is like all with a

Lot of things Tiger Woods like they get blown up to an incredible degree and uh only one golfer in the world could make everyone stand at a service entrance for an hour because yeah you know he’s been through the roller coaster of Health stuff like you never know what you’re

Going to get yeah the clubhouse was extremely locked down whenever I went in there they were uh areas that we were able to get to earlier in the week were shut down there there are some of the like beefiest security guards I’ve ever seen in my life I haven’t seen these

Guys at all this week like I would say minimum minimum height 63 minimum weight like 310 they brought the muscle in and they yeah all wearing black suits and they were uh enforcing a strict perimeter around but ultimately I don’t know I think uh I think our guys

Could to be just fine here and I also think he would have had to be really really ill to uh leave here in an ambulance knowing that that was waiting for him it’s one of those things that like there’s a lot of things with tiger that like you’ll get just a kernel of

Information and then that’s it and that’s what the entire day was like CU we got a kernel of information One Beat at a time we knew where he was we knew he was in the lock the clubhouse at some point but we didn’t know anything more

And so that was what was weird about this whole thing is like he’s probably fine he’s in the clubhouse he’s not getting rushed away it’s serious enough that he’s off the golf course but not so serious that he has to leave in the ambulance just total confusion is is

Kind of the theme of the day just all sorts of confusion here Pat’s ripping off some text this is about tiger uh were you able to communicate with him at all what he was dealing with today that him drawing no I mean I saw it um obviously

Wasn’t s just just didn’t look right um saw that before before the round started so it sucks it’s obviously everything’s better with with him there and for him for his first term of back and he couldn’t come out and finish the way he wanted to um that’s that sucks for all

Of us when you say you saw it I guess like what did you see just didn’t look right he he was quieter um you know and obviously it’s cut day out here we’re all trying to trying to play well we’re all trying to especially the whole group’s trying to

Focus and pick ourselves up and play well but uh yeah it was a little bad for him um he wasn’t right he definitely was trying to fight through it and uh I hope he’s all right he is mostly fine he’s been battling flu like symptoms he received treatment via

An IV in the clubhouse but it was a weird day trying to cover it because there was about 2 hours where we didn’t know anything there was an ambulance out front there was a a fire truck out front um but he’s he he has withdrawn so he’s

Among the people who have missed the cut and tournament goes on whether or not tiger can come back um I I feel he’ll come back over the weekend I think he enjoys presenting the trophy on Sunday to the champion and right now it’s looking very obvious like it could be

Probably will be Patrick Hanley and to make the day even crazier Jordan SMI has just been disqualified for siging an incorrect work card the craziness continues are you whipping up the graphic yeah um my cameraman over here is not able to make one while I’m on

It got to find a good pick of him looking disappointed though