Farmers Insurance Open 2011

[mcfc_nick]

Tiger makes a bomb, -3 for the day already!

[pusher]

Phil finishes with a great birdie on 18.

[Zeph]

John Daly with a 4-putt today. Tiger with a struggle in the middle of the round, but he's making less bogies than he did last year. Par on the par fives is not what he was looking for I suppose.

[Mr. Desmond]

Tiger is having a mini-meltdown, or maybe not, it's a tough course.

I think what we're going to find is that Tiger is human on the golf course, too. With the depth of today's fields, Tiger will have to ask himself if winning non-major tourneys is important to him. If so, he will have to play more often -- which will be beneficial to the Tour.

He won't be able to "play into" a tournament as it progresses and expect to win. Tiger will have to grind and play more.

That's not a bad thing. It's good. I think we all want to see him play more often.  It will only be bad for him if he doesn't realize it.

[pusher]

Nice birdie just now, though.

[breakout89]

Tiger really putted well today, but some of those bunker shots were pretty awful. I think he has a legitimate shot being only 5 shots back from Haas. It's also nice to see AK play well :)

[Camo]

Ouch, just now watching on DVR and that was brutal, missed the birdie putt for the lead and then has 2 lip outs for a harsh double bogey...... Cost him the lead today. Hopefully he can shake that off and dial it in for the next round. Golf is a cruel mistress. Lol

[Chas]

I won't be obsessed with Tiger's game when I show up there later today but maybe I'll follow him from the 11th through the 13th at least. If I were him, I'd be thinking something like, "If I'd just quit with the ******* blunders like in the bunker today I'd be right back there in charge".  It must be frustrating for him and you can see that sometimes but IMO he's got a plan and he's coming back ..... But Phil the Thrill and JD are looking strong as well, not to mention many others.

Yesterday on the way to work I stopped the motorbike for a minute next to the driving range (on Torrey Pines Rd.) and watched them warming up.  What a way to commute .....  Not hard to spot JD from behind the fence and he was looking good ....... if you can just ignore the sartorial selection.

[colin007]

seriously, what happened in those bunkers???  the first one, looked like a fairly simple buker shot, good lie, and he totally chunked it...never seen him do that.

[Zeph]

He did it a couple of times when I watched last year. Perhaps it's a result of his swing changes that takes some time getting used to.

[colin007]

did he ever do it twice in one round?

what about the one that went sideways on him?

[Zeph]

Tiger must've forgotten his shorts, because he's spending an awful lot of time in the sand.

[Aquaguru]

Looks like its tough scoring out there today

[zeg]

Looks like Tiger's only hope is to scrape out a birdie on the last hole here, then hope he has a miraculous day and the rest of the field holds more or less steady tomorrow.  I think I'll be rooting for Mickelson though.

[iacas]

Originally Posted by zeg

Looks like Tiger's only hope is to scrape out a birdie on the last hole here, then hope he has a miraculous day and the rest of the field holds more or less steady tomorrow.  I think I'll be rooting for Mickelson though.

Tiger's out of it. Perhaps another back-door top 10. And even that one's rating as unlikely given that he's T24 and can only hope to eagle or birdie the 18th today.

Twitter tells me his putting has sucked today. Hope he isn't lying when he says it's slipped because he hasn't practiced it... because he also said he's practiced it again more lately.

[MSDOGS1976]

Tiger just doesn't look good. Certainly not as good as the Chevron, but.......it's the first tournament of the year. He's got some work to do.

[Zeph]

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeg

Looks like Tiger's only hope is to scrape out a birdie on the last hole here, then hope he has a miraculous day and the rest of the field holds more or less steady tomorrow.  I think I'll be rooting for Mickelson though.

Tiger's out of it. Perhaps another back-door top 10. And even that one's rating as unlikely given that he's T24 and can only hope to eagle or birdie the 18th today.

Twitter tells me his putting has sucked today. Hope he isn't lying when he says it's slipped because he hasn't practiced it... because he also said he's practiced it again more lately.

He always blame his putting. From what I saw today and yesterday, his trouble lies from tee to green. He's spraying balls to the right into bunkers and hitting approach shots into bunkers from there. Tiger isn't three putting a whole lot, so he is making bogies because he can't get on the green in regulation. His driving accuracy has been 36, 43, 36 so far this week. Not being able to get out of bunkers is also an issue of course. Tiger sais his putting was off when he's not making 10' putts for par. He is putting from par from 10' because he didn't find the green in regulation. I'm not saying his putting is good, but he's not making bogies because of his putter, just like he wasn't last year either. He had his share of slamming clubs into the ground today.

[uttexas]

I'm enjoying the early tournaments, Farmer's included.  Johnattan Vegas is having an amazing start to his PGA career.

Typically, Foley was being dishonest when he told the media that driver was currently the strongest club in Tiger's bag.  Tiger looked really uncomfortable and unsure with driver in his hands the last two days.  I liked Tiger's comment that he is working on his Farmer's tan.