Tiger Woods was searching a little bit of a sorry sight

Tiger Woods was searching a little bit of a sorry sight

Eagle saves WoodsWoods did not rate Thursday's first round at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic rather highly, but he can yet rank his final hole eagle as one of his finest - specially if it happens when the spark that re-ignites his embattled career. After a average round that had the World No three attempting all of 8 shots behind the super-hot first-round leader Rory golf game McIlrey, five behind solid World No 1, Lee Westwood, and four behind a workmanlike World No 2, Martin Kaymer, Tiger Woods was searching a little bit of a sorry sight. He scarcely discovered his ball roll down from the proper side of the green, but a huge roar from the gallery confirmed that it had settled not considerably more than six feet from the pin. Tiger Woods nailed the fairly easy golf putt for a crucial eagle that took him to 1-under and though it placed him six shots of the pace set by McIlroy previously in the day, it provided him a 71 and introduced him up to two shots behind Westwood and Kaymer and must absolutely have boosted his dropping confidence sky high. He stated of the eagle: "I had 254 (yards) to the golf hole and had to take something off it. I used it up in the air and it seemed to be perfect.

" Westwood assigned "a loss of concentration" for his sloppy finish off, whereas Kaymer stated his round might have been "fantastic" however for his unlucky break on the ninth.But then just as before, you by no means might tell with Tiger. He'd a patchy 1st day for being sure, making one birdie as against three bogies on the 1st nine, recouping with 2 early birdies on the back nine, but tripping again with a double bogey 6 on the par 4 16th before having back under par with a 4th birdie and that remarkable eagle at 18. Woods was promptly in a tough time, missing par putts of under six feet on the first and fourth.