"Not so fine” - Tiger Woods admits playing through ‘constant’ pain at Masters
Tiger Woods returned to the golf course after a couple of months. The golf veteran had a rough first day at the 2023 Masters, as he finished at 2-over 74 on Thursday.
Tiger revealed that he was in “constant” pain during the first round of The Masters 2023. His right leg is still a concern as he was looking a bit uneasy. He survived a terrible accident two years back and recovery hasn't been easy for him since then.
The 15-time major champion didn't play much professional golf due to injury concerns and recently talked about his plans stating that he was only going to play in major events moving forward.
On the question of pain, Tiger Woods replied that it was "constant":
"Well, it's on my left leg, I'm good, you know, but hop on the left leg is fine. If I did on the other one, not so fun."
Tiger has a solid record at Augusta National and has only missed the cut once in his 24 appearances at the event. The five-time Masters champion was critical of his first-round game, though he admitted he was a bit slow initially.
He told reporters,
"I didn't have very good speed early. I had two three-putts, and consequently, in a couple over par. But I needed my irons close enough today, you know. I didn't give myself very good looks. Needed a better job of that going forward. Hopefully, (I'll) get myself back in this tournament."
Woods was paired alongside Viktor Hovland and Xander Schauffele but both had contrasting results compared to Woods on Day 1 at Augusta. While Schauffele did well to finish T-6 at 4-under, Hovland shot a first round of seven under to secure the lead alongside Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka.
Tee time details of Tiger Woods and others for the 2023 Masters, Round 2
- 7:30 am: Cameron Champ, Jose Maria Olazabal
- 7:42 am: Taylor Moore, Charl Schwartzel Aldrich Potgieter
- 7:54 am: Francesco Molinari, Bryson DeChambeau, J.T. Poston
- 8:06 am: Bernhard Langer, Mito Pereira, Ben Carr
- 8:18 am: Danny Willett, Gary Woodland, Brooks Koepka
- 8:30 am: Sepp Straka, K.H. Lee, Harold Varner III
- 8:42 am: Phil Mickelson, Si Woo Kim, Tom Hoge
- 8:54 am: Billy Horschel, Harris English, Ryan Fox
- 9:06 am: Zach Johnson, Gordon Sargent, Jason Day,
- 9:18 am: Brian Harman, Tyrrell Hatton, Joaquin Niemann,
- 9:36 am: Dustin Johnson, Corey Conners, Justin Rose
- 9:48 am: Collin Morikawa, Matt Fitzpatrick
- 10 am: Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, Sam Bennett
- 10:12 am: Tom Kim, Rory McIlroy, Sam Burns
- 10:24 am: Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Tony Finau
- 10:36 am: Mike Weir
- 10:48 am: Vijay Singh, Scott Stallings, Matthew McClean
- 11 am: Sandy Lyle, Jason Kokrak, Talor Gooch
- 11:12 am: Fred Couples, Russell Henley, Alex Noren
- 11:24 am: Adrian Meronk, Kevin Kisner, Louis Oosthuizen
- 11:42 am: Larry Mize, Min Woo Lee, Harrison Crowe
- 11:54 am: Sergio Garcia, Kazuki Higa, Keith Mitchell
- 12:06 pm: Patrick Reed, Adam Svensson, Sahith Theegala
- 12:18 pm: Shane Lowry, Mackenzie Hughes, Thomas Pieters
- 12:30 pm: Bubba Watson, Seamus Power, Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira
- 12:42 pm: Abraham Ancer, Chris Kirk, Keegan Bradley
- 12:54 pm: Tiger Woods, Viktor Hovland, Xander Schauffele
- 1:06 pm: Adam Scott, Patrick Cantlay, Kurt Kitayama
- 1:18 pm: Justin Thomas, Jon Rahm, Cameron Young
- 1:30 pm: Hideki Matsuyama, Cameron Smith, Sungjae Im