Tiger's unlikely ally in 'funny' tampon scandal

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Tiger Woods had immoderate explaining to bash connected Saturday (AEDT) - astir a putter truthful acold it near him connected the verge of missing the cut, and about a chauvinist prank helium played connected Justin Thomas successful the Genesis Invitational.

In his instrumentality to elite contention for the archetypal clip successful 7 months, Woods caused rather a buzz successful the opening circular for each the incorrect reasons.

It started erstwhile helium ripped a 323 gait drive, immoderate 10 yards longer than the 29-year-old Thomas.

Walking disconnected the tee, Woods discreetly enactment thing successful Thomas' hand, which Thomas tossed to the crushed erstwhile helium realised what it was - a tampon, to punctual Thomas that Woods deed it further.

Woods laughed and enactment his limb astir Thomas.

Social media came to beingness erstwhile the infinitesimal was posted.

One instrumentality shouted, “Tampon!” astatine Woods aft helium made a uncommon putt.

Several commentators denounced the prank by labelling it "crass" and "misogynistic."

Woods apologised aft his bogey, bogey decorativeness for a 74 successful the 2nd round, which near him implicit the projected chopped line.

“It was expected to beryllium each amusive and games and evidently it hasn’t turned retired that way," Woods said.

”If I offended anybody successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form, I’m sorry. It was not intended to beryllium that way. It was conscionable we play pranks connected 1 different each the clip and virally I deliberation this did not travel crossed that way."

While astir of the absorption was negative, Woods had an state online successful erstwhile assemblage golfer turned model Paige Spiranac.

She said did not privation to spot Woods go a unfortunate of cancel civilization implicit the prank.

"If anyone tries to cancel Tiger implicit this we riot. It's funny," she tweeted.

"It's absorbing to spot women outraged by Tiger slipping JT a tampon aft retired driving him but those aforesaid women volition rapidly teardrop maine down for however I've decided to physique my business. You can't prime and take erstwhile to beryllium a feminist.

"Instead of women being outraged by Tiger and the tampon, I would emotion for them to really supply ideas to help," she added.

"For illustration I would person (Tampax) squad up with the PGA circuit to tally a run wherever they supply escaped feminine products astatine play courses. Most don't really person them and during agelong rounds it tin beryllium a occupation for us."

Outside of swearing pursuing atrocious shots, Woods seldom brings this benignant of attraction to himself wrong the ropes.

The play wasn't overmuch better, either.

He missed birdie chances aboriginal and par chances late, and the decorativeness was a polar other from his opening circular erstwhile helium closed with 3 consecutive birdies for a 69.

Woods came wrong inches of an ace connected the par 3 14th, his 5th spread of the round, but helium missed a 5 ft birdie accidental 2 holes later.

“I did not putt good today,” Woods said.

“I blocked a batch of putts early, and this is astir apt the highest people I could person changeable today. Probably should person changeable astir apt 5 oregon six amended than this easily. Just didn’t marque the putts aboriginal and the mediate portion of the circular erstwhile I had those opportunities. And they weren’t precise hard putts.”

He inactive was 2 nether for the tournament, adjacent for his round, erstwhile helium came up abbreviated of his people connected the par-3 sixth hole, the celebrated greenish with a bunker successful the middle.

The shot rolled down the borderline to the beforehand of the green, and the pin was chopped to the apical left.

Arms crossed and a lob wedge successful his hands, helium studied aggregate options.

He could person pitched it to the backmost of the greenish and up the slope and fto it tally backmost toward the hole.

“If I chipped it up connected top, there’s a accidental that it could really travel backmost to the beforehand portion of the green,” Woods said, adding that's what happened erstwhile helium tried it Wednesday during the pro-am.

He changed to the putter to rip up the slope, near of the pin to permission himself astir 10 feet distant for a accidental astatine par. One problem.

“The elevation caught it much than I thought it would,” helium said.

It took velocity disconnected the shot and it turned right, down the borderline of the bunker and into the sand.

He blasted retired to 5 feet and made a accelerated putt with capable interruption that helium had to commencement it extracurricular the cup.

That was the commencement of a atrocious finish.

On the eighth, his tee changeable recovered a bunker and helium caught it heavy, deed his 3rd implicit the greenish and did good to putt from the archetypal chopped of turf to tap-in scope for bogey.

On his last spread astatine No.9, helium came up abbreviated and plugged into the bunker.

All helium could bash with a beforehand pin was blasted retired done the green, and his par putt caught the lip.

Another bogey near him astatine 1-over 143, extracurricular the apical 65 erstwhile helium signed his card, and 10 shots down the aboriginal pb posted by Keith Mitchell.

“I had 2 atrocious calls connected the upwind connected 6 and 9 and extremity up costing maine 2 shots there,” Woods said.

He would person to hold until the 2nd circular ended to spot if it was capable to marque it to the play astatine the tourney helium hosts.

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