JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — One hour after he started, Tiger Woods was atop the leaderboard Thursday at the PGA Championship and felt like the Tiger of old. He never imagined he would end up with his worst score ever in the opening round of a major. He opened with three birdies in five holes. He followed with three double bogeys over the next 10 holes. Woods started out with his name high on the board, right next to Steve Stricker, who went on to tie a major championship record with 63. He wound up toward the bottom, next to John Daly and 57-year-old Jerry Pate, with a 77. It was his highest round in a major since Woods shot an 81 in the vicious wind and pelting rain of Muirfield in the third round of the British Open nine years ago. And it was no mystery to him how it all happened. "Got off to a great start today, was 3 under early, was having mechanical thoughts through those holes … and I thought, 'I can let it go' and play by instinct and feel," he said. "And it just screwed up my whole round. I'm not at that point where I can do that yet."
You're not at the point where you can go off instinct and feel yet? Hey bro, you're Tiger Woods. You're the greatest golfer ever. Get out of your head. Tomorrow morning I want you to reach down in your pants and remind yourself you have big brass balls. The type of balls that won you 14 majors and gave you the confidence to slam every piece of pussy on both sides of the Nile.
P.S. That look of Tiger's face in the picture is pretty much identical to mine 87% of my day.
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