Tiger and Rory In; Phil and Jordan Out; Rickie Motivated by Overrated Remark

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Published: May 9, 2015

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Although Jerry Kelly and Kevin Na top the leaderboard at The Players, the PGA Tour breathed a big sigh of relief when Tiger Woods played his way back into the tournament after shooting three over par on Thursday.

Rory McIlroy held steady, finishing just three back of the lead, while Phil Mickelson and Jordan Spieth could not find enough game to make the weekend. Rickie Fowler proved he is for real, despite what a magazine survey said.

Woods had to birdie his final hole, the ninth, to make the cut on the number, even par, and he gave a monster fist pump when the putt dropped.

“There’s no guarantee the guys are going to drop back to plus-one, so even [par] was guaranteed to make the cut,” he said about what he was thinking as he played the seventh and eighth holes and headed to the ninth, a par five. He knew he needed the birdie.

However, Woods could not get momentum going.“It was one of those things where I couldn’t capitalize on some opportunities and get on a run,” he explained. “I just didn’t stuff my iron shots in there. I felt like I drove it pretty good today overall, but I just wasn’t hitting the ball close enough.”

McIlroy came in at four under par, which is four strokes back of the lead. He described his round as steady.

“I was pretty bored out there,” he said to the media afterward. “I’m not sure how you felt about watching it.” That drew a laugh  

It was not quite boring. He hit a tree on the second and sixth, was in a fairway bunker on the fourth and fifth and found the water with his second shot on the 16th.

McIlroy hit 75 percent of fairways and 63 percent of greens. He described his round as trying to “hit fairways, hit greens and pick off my birdies when I could.”

Mickelson believed he would do better.

“I thought I wa...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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