Tiger blames missed putts on greens
Tiger Woods left the Barclays exactly the way he arrived - in a bad mood. He had a six-foot putt on the 72nd hole to force a playoff and have a chance to win The Barclays almost out of spite.
"If I would have hit a poor putt, I would have been (angry)," Woods said later, "but I didn't."
He wanted to make this very clear: It was the greens, those tricked-up greens, that led to his near miss in Jersey City on Sunday, and certainly not the player holding the putter in his hands.
"Not too many golf courses that you misread putts that badly," he added. "This course is one." He sounded like a shortstop blaming the infield grass for an E-6 or a goalie blaming the Zamboni for a bad goal. This was denial, plain and simple, and it was coming from the most unlikely athlete.
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