Tiger Woods struggles with putter at Augusta

Tiger Woods struggles with putter at Augusta

The problem for Woods on a picture-perfect day at the 75th Masters was not his long sticks but the shortest club in his bag. Thanks to a passel of three-putts and missed short ones, Woods backed up Friday’s 66 with a 2-over 74 and headed to Masters Sunday seven shots back of leader Rory McIlroy, who stepped off the 18th green at 12-under.“I swung the club well all day. That wasn’t the problem,” Woods told reporters following his Masters Competition About The Tradition disappointing round. “Two three-putts and a bunch of putts that looked like they were going to go in....I just didn’t make anything on the greens.”McIlroy, for his part, carded a steady 70 to take a four-stroke lead over four golfers, including 2009 Masters winner Angel Cabrera, who draws the confident 21-year-old from Northern Ireland in tomorrow’s finale.The problem for Woods on a picture-perfect day at the 75th Masters was not his long sticks but the shortest club in his bag. Thanks to a passel of three-putts and missed short ones, Woods backed up Friday’s 66 with a 2-over 74 and headed to Masters Sunday seven shots back of leader Rory McIlroy, who stepped off the 18th green at 12-under.

“I swung the club well all day. That wasn’t the problem,” Woods told reporters following his disappointing round. “Two three-putts and a bunch Does Cherry Hills Deserve PGA Tour of putts that looked like they were going to go in....I just didn’t make anything on the greens.”McIlroy, for his part, carded a steady 70 to take a four-stroke lead over four golfers, including 2009 Masters winner Angel Cabrera, who draws the confident 21-year-old from Northern Ireland in tomorrow’s finale.