ARDMORE, Pa. — Tiger Woods has won a U.S. Open on a broken leg. Now he’s trying to win one with a wounded arm.
For the second day in a row, Woods grimaced in pain after several shots, his left arm clearly bothering him
at times. Still, he pieced together a nice 70 for a 3-over-par 143 and
said he likes his chances of winning his first major championship in
five years.
Woods felt some pain in an arm he said he injured while hitting a shot when winning The Players
in early May. That is curious because, based on his lack of reacting,
it didn’t seem to bother him there or when he tied for 65th at the
Memorial Tournament two weeks ago.
The Open at Merion has been something else from the start. He
grimaced hitting a shot out of rough on his first hole Thursday. In
Friday’s second round, among other times, he winced after laying up from
deep rough en route to a tap-in birdie on the par-5 second. After
teeing off with an iron on the short par-4 eighth, he shook his left arm
while in obvious discomfort. His approach from the rough on No. 8 also
was bothersome, for he wrapped his left arm around his back.
With all that going on, people not only watched his shots but also his facial expressions.
“It is what it is,” Woods said regarding the arm after each of the first two rounds.
The problem, according to a Woods insider, lies in the elbow. One
could surmise it’s tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow and probably not
gardener’s elbow. But since Woods hasn’t said, some could be left
wondering whether the soreness involves that joint or the left wrist,
left forearm, left bicep, left triceps, left shoulder, left ear lobe,
left nostril or left temple.
Oh, we forgot left cheek.
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