Woods eagled the par-5 1st to start his final nine when he stuck an iron from 204 yards to six feet away and made the putt. He would, however, find trouble on the two par-3s on the front. He missed the green on 4 and couldn’t get up and down and made bogey, and on 6 he made double when his tee shot found the sand. He blasted out over the green, and his pitch back on ran over the front to the fairway. The double put him at nine over for the week, which was in last place (behind Ryan Palmer at eight over).
Woods closed his round with three more missed greens, which led to bogeys on 7 and 8 and a par on 9.
According to ESPN’s Bob Harig, the only other time Woods finished last among those who made the cut was at the 2015 Memorial. That week was marred by Woods’ third-round 85.
Woods’ Sunday night in LA will consist of tying up a few more loose ends that come with being tournament host, and then he’ll be off for at least one week. He didn’t commit to next week’s WGC-Mexico Championship — “I just felt I wasn’t going to be ready for next week,” he said Saturday — and his next start will likely be either The Honda Classic (Feb. 27-March 1) or the Arnold Palmer Invitational (March 5-8). It’s possible he could skip both and make his next start at the Players Championship on March 12, but it’s likely he’ll tee it up at least once prior to TPC Sawgrass.
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