DUBLIN, Ohio – Tiger Woods has never been accused of slow play, particularly during practice rounds, but Monday and Tuesday were different.
“You know me, I don’t like to take too much time during practice rounds,” Woods said on Wednesday at the Memorial, where he is making his first start since The Players.
But earlier this week Woods took two days to tour Chambers Bay, site of this month’s U.S. Open, and the layout lived up to its reputation as a complicated test.
Woods said he played the front nine on Monday in 3 1/2 hours, stopped for lunch and a meeting with his team – which included caddie Joe LaCava – to discuss the links-like course before heading out for another 3 1/2-hour nine.