AUSTIN, Texas – For two decades, Tiger Woods has insisted that he never enters an event he doesn’t expect to win.
But winning here at Austin Country Club will be a little more taxing than normal.
Whichever players advance to Sunday’s final match will have played seven rounds of golf in five days. That’s a lot of golf on any course, let alone on this wildly undulated walk.
When Woods stepped to the podium for media availability following his Tuesday practice round, he offered this first impression of Austin CC.
“Well,” he started, “it’s not flat.