Loading hurts, pressing off it hurts and walking hurts, and twisting hurts.”Īt one point, Woods had five bogeys during an eight-hole stretch, and he added two more on his final two holes. “My leg is not feeling as good as I would like it to be,' acknowledged Woods, who missed last year's tournament at Kiawah Island while recovering. He then leaned heavily on it while watching playing partner Rory McIlroy hit his approach shot.
But whether he was fidgeting with a compression wrap on it during his second nine, or using his driver almost like cane as he walked down the fairways, it quickly became evident that the leg was bothering him.Īfter knocking his tee shot into the greenside bunker on his penultimate hole, Woods grimaced as he walked gingerly back to his bag.
Woods was optimistic that after making it around hilly Augusta National during the Masters, the right leg that was so severely injured in a car crash would fare well on the reasonably flat, compact layout in Tulsa.
