BMW Championship 2018: Tiger Woods left ruing day to forget on the greens as overnight lead slips out of his grasp
A day after sinking virtually everything at Aronimink, Woods never got going with the putter in his hand as his 62 was followed up with a hugely disappointing even-par 70
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Your support makes all the difference.Tiger Woods was left ruing a day to forget on the greens as he went from overnight leader to a tie for 11th on day two at the BMW Championship.
Fresh from a best opening round for 20 years on Thursday all eyes were on the 14-time Major champion as he looks for a first tournament win since 2013.
But a day after sinking virtually everything here at Aronimink, Woods never got going with the putter in his hand as his 62 was followed up with a hugely disappointing even-par 70, including back-to-back bogeys at 17 and 18.
“It’s very simple, I didn't make any putts,” he said when asked for an explanation for that eight-stroke swing. “I hit a lot of beautiful putts that were on top of the edge and then obviously hit a couple bad ones on the last hole. It looked like all the putts were going to go in but they didn't today.”
Conditions in Pennsylvania went from sweltering to sticky as much of the field made hay with the already vulnerable course softening up after significant overnight rain in the region. Not Woods though who instead of kicking on went backwards as the chasing pack surged past him heading into the weekend.
“As soft as the golf course was, they had a lot of back pins and couldn't get back there, I couldn't skip the ball back there,” he added. “You don't want to go long, you don't want to carry it past the hole and skip over the back.
“It was a difficult task to try and fly one to get it back there without hitting it over the back.”
Xander Schauffele leads at halfway after backing up his opening 63 with a second round 64, with a host of the world’s top players including Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy still in the mix.
Woods feels he did enough to be right up there with them, but just couldn’t make it stick.
“That round today was easily 6, 7-under par,” Woods added regretfully. “It turned into even par which is not what I needed to do today. Everyone is going low and birdies should be had.”
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