UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – It was better. Then again, could it have gotten any worse?
Barely had the curtain fallen on Thursday’s horror show (a topped 3-wood from the middle of the fairway that you’d be more likely to see in your D Flight qualifier?) when Tiger Woods was asked to step on stage Friday morning for a second-round performance in the 115th U.S. Open.
If his first-round 80 had been scripted by Stephen King, Woods arrived Friday hoping to play out something penned by Shane Black. You know, a little action-adventure superhero script. Maybe not "Iron Man," per se, but something to at least pull him out of the cellar, feed him some optimism and confirm that for whatever reason he is doing what he’s doing with his swing, it’s headed in the right direction.