Tiger Woods Battling to Find Himself at 2014 WGC-Bridgestone at Firestone

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Published: August 1, 2014

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Tiger Woods is off to a fine start at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, as is to be expected at a tournament he has won eight times. Yet there were times during Thursday’s first round at the Firestone Country Club where he looked like he was a million miles away from the Akron, Ohio, course that has been one of his greatest comfort zones.

He sometimes looked like a man who was wrestling with inner demons, even as he shot a two-under round of 68 that has him tied for ninth and solidly in contention at four strokes back as he prepares for next week’s PGA Championship.

The most obvious example of Woods’ self-torment came on No. 14, where his reaction to a poor approach shot was that of a man whose world had just crumbled.

As his ball rolled back downhill from the green, he took two vicious swings in the air, one left-handed and another right-handed, as if he were trying to behead a nemesis.

Then he ripped off his glove and pulled down his hat over his face, seemingly trying to hide from the lip readers. He kept it off as he strode up the fairway. He was clearly incensed with himself and rubbing his thinning hairline like someone who was suffering from a head-to-toe migraine.



But here’s the thing. The errant shot Woods had just launched wasn’t one of those Phil Mickelson specials that disappears deep into a dark and dangerous corner of the woods. Nor was he buried in one of the crater-like bunkers the Scots use to torture duffers and pros.

Woods had simply failed to stick on the green and was still was in position to make par, which he did. Yet his body language was that of someone who had just missed a Masters-clinching tap-in.

And that spoke volumes about where Tiger appears to be these days as he struggles to salvage a year that seems destined to be his sixth in a row without a victory in a major.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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