Friday, February 11, 2011

ODDC 2nd round update

Just to let you guys know, my favorite channel is the golf channel and I was lucky enough to catch the extended highlights of the 2nd round from the Dubai Desert classic last night. Tiger Woods represented America well and threw down a superb 66, 6 under par, low score on the day, which was good enough to put him in a tie for 5th. Lee Westwood shot 2 under par and Martin Kaymer shot 1 under par as the top three ranked players concluded an interesting two day pairing with each other.

Tiger showed promise that his struggles are behind him and that he may be gaining confidence in his new swing changes. Last year, Tiger fired his swing coach and has since adopted a new swing philosophy.  A two time champion of the DDC, Tiger amassed 6 birdies and 0 bogeys and said after the round, "I feel good. We (him and his swing coach) worked out a few things last night that I didn't like." He looked to be in control most of the round, driving the ball well and gettingt the putter going, which has let him down the last year or so. Hopefully he will continue this play into the weekend and finally win a tournament since the big scandal.

Rory McIlroy still leads the tournament at 11 under after a 68 yesterday. Sergio Garcia, one of my favorite golfers, has continued his good play as of late and is in 2nd place at 10 under. No one else of note is in the top ten.

The pairing of the top three in the world is over and this will be my last post on this tournament. Ill let you guys know if Tiger wins on Sunday but I really just wanted to cover this interesting pairing. It seems like Tiger had a small victory by coming out on top and it is good to see USA on the leader board.

14 comments:

  1. So he's focussing on the game and not the groupies now? =D

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  2. i hope tiger wins i still like him after all the controversy

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  3. Nice, I haven't really followed him recently but it's glad to know he's got his head back in the game. Hopefully in the future his career won't be as badly threatened by his social life...

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  4. Tiger is one back after the third round. the conditions were tough and he managed to gain ground while only shooting par. Im biased towards Tiger, I still like him as well even after all the controversy.

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  5. haha, i like tiger even more after the controversy

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  6. I hope everything works out for Tiger.

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  7. Yeah, he appears to be coming back though

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  8. @ prelude- I started playing 10 years ago and just fell in love with it all. I met Tiger briefly at the presidents cup in 05 and got his autograph which was pretty cool.

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  9. Good to hear Tiger is doing good. I was afraid the controversy could ruin his career.

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  10. Golf reminds me of paintball. They are both sports that are more fun to do than watch. But I'm glad this tourney is an exciting one! Most are a little too predictable.

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