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Fifteen-time Major champion Tiger Woods apologized after handing fellow golfer Justin Thomas a tampon throughout the first spherical of the Genesis Invitational on Thursday.
Following Friday’s second spherical at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, Woods mentioned he didn’t imply to offend anybody.
“It was supposed to be all fun and games and obviously it hasn’t turned out that way.” Tiger instructed reporters. “If I offended anybody, it was not the case, it was just friends having fun. As I said, if I offended anybody in any way, shape or form, I’m sorry. It was not intended to be that way. It was just we play pranks on one another all the time and virally I think this did not come across that way, but between us it was – it’s different.”
“If tiger spent three months a year bleeding and coping with period pain, they’d make a whole-ass documentary about how champions overcome insurmountable obstacles,” Alex McDaniel, managing editor of USA Today’s For The Win, tweeted on Friday morning.
Woods is at risk of lacking the lower at the match, after ending his second spherical at one-over-par. The projected lower line is presently even-par, in accordance with pgatour.com, however ESPN’s broadcast mentioned the lower line is anticipated to maneuver to one-over as the afternoon progresses.
Woods criticized his play on Friday, saying “this was the highest score I could have shot today.”
After struggling critical leg accidents in a automobile accident two years in the past, Woods has made sporadic aggressive appearances as he battles with a grueling restoration course of.
Playing at the Genesis Invitational this week marks his first official match begin since The Open Championship in July and his first non-major PGA Tour occasion since the ZOZO Championship in October 2020.
He completed his first spherical with a two-under par 69, with birdies on his remaining three holes, to finish the day 5 photographs behind match leaders Max Homa and Keith Mitchell.
“Probably should have shot probably five or six better than this easily,” Woods mentioned. “Just didn’t make the putts early and the middle part of the round when I had those opportunities. And they weren’t very hard putts, I just hit bad putts and obviously had a very bad finish, too.”
The Genesis Invitational runs by way of Sunday.