Tiger Woods finishes The Masters 2024 in 60th place. The 48-year-old carded a round of 77 (+5) at Augusta National on Sunday. This brought his overall score down to 16 over par. That was certainly not the result the four-time winner of the tournament had in mind. But considering that Woods has not yet played a tournament over four rounds this year, his performance before the weekend is remarkable.
Tiger Woods Finishes 60th at The Masters 2024
On Saturday, however, the slump followed. The 82 deprived Woods of any chance of a top finish. He then improved his score once again on Sunday. His fellow player, amateur Neil Shipley, experienced a relatively relaxed Woods, who chatted with him as he walked down the fairways.
In an interview after the final round of The Masters, Woods spoke about the challenges of the week, why he needs to prepare better for the upcoming majors and why the Masters week was a good week despite everything.
Tiger Woods After The Masters 2024: “It was a good week”
Question: Tiger, it’s remarkable how you can be competitive for a couple of days without any reps. How can you turn two rounds into four moving forward?
Tiger Woods: Well, this is a golf course I knew going into it, so I’m going to do my homework going forward at Pinehurst, Valhalla and Troon, but that’s kind of the game plan. It’s always nice coming back here because I know the golf course, I know how to play it. I can kind of simulate shots. Granted, it’s never quite the same as getting out here and doing it. Same thing, I heard there’s some changes at the next couple sites. So got to get up there early and check them out.
Question: What will be the challenge to get ready for Valhalla, if that’s the next one?
Tiger Woods: Well, just keep lifting, keep the motor going, keep the body moving, keep getting stronger, keep progressing. Hopefully the practice sessions will keep getting longer.
Question: Tiger, no one’s asked you about the meeting with Yasir in the Bahamas last month. What were your impressions of him? Do you feel like you’re any closer to a deal with him?
Tiger Woods: I don’t know if we’re closer, but certainly we’re headed in the right direction. That was a very positive meeting, and I think both sides came away from the meeting feeling positive.
Question: What’s the one thing this weekend that was the biggest challenge?
Tiger Woods: Well, I think that just the wind and what it was doing out here to the golf shots and the balls and putting, how difficult the course was playing. It doesn’t take much to get out of position here. Unfortunately, I got out of position a lot yesterday and a couple times today.
Question: Tiger, in terms of the achievement, not the outcome of the tournament, but the achievement for you personally, how do you rate this performance this week?
Tiger Woods: It was a good week. It was a good week all around. I think that coming in here, not having played a full tournament in a very long time, it was a good fight on Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately yesterday it didn’t quite turn out the way I wanted it to. Today the round that I — the way that Tom is playing I thought I had in my system. Unfortunately, I didn’t produce it.
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