Tiger Woods | Every shot broadcast from 82nd PGA TOUR title | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP 2019

from the United States, the current Masters champion, Tiger, what a scene this morning on the 10th hole. It was fabulous. The adoring crowd came alive to watch Tiger compete in Japan for the first time since 2006,

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step of the way at Accordia Golf near Shino Country Club. Fans cheered, cameras clicked, that's how their day started. Steve Sands is happy to be next to Frank Nabalo and Tiger was looking to the left. It took an extra bounce for Steve and he found the water on the left side, so it wasn't the start for him or any of those thousands who adore him.

A lot of people wanted, yeah, this dramatically better Steve at just over 100 yards uphill and he hit it, so now the Chinese side has a chance to get away with a way four and here's the par putt that always left a quick bogey, bogey, his second hole of the day now to avoid three bogeys in a row, yes, this was his comeback drive, so it's a three-putt bogey and the first birdie of the day came on the 14th hole, up the hill from the

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, back to two over par, now here's your second on the 15th from the rough right, yeah, this one. he's such a good top iron player, I mean he hits this one in the air, these greens are small and what a great

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, maybe he'll start to develop some momentum, yeah this is absolute money, two in a row and then to the 16. started with three bogeys, how about three birdies on 14, 15 and 16 at Tiger Woods, move up to par on 18?

This is an eagle attempt after a beautiful second on the par five from 237 yards. Tiger, the energy here is palpable on this first or just a short position, hold the par four and set it like this, then when we come back down, Tiger on the first, his tenth hole of the day, Craig, right in the middle of the fairway, 117 yards, and man, does he have some great hands? Hit this there a little low on the front hole location, that's exactly what he's done. A good

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here looks like things have calmed down for the Tigers, now Tiger has birdied four of his last six holes to get back to one under par here. he's trying to get to two, there's an old golf course that Steve built in 1965, so a lot of the greens are sloped back to front and you get over the top of the hole.

I saw that just with Matsuyama, that quick one here is Tiger's placed par, okay. 100 bar and after that tough start the

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s just two shots back home, Tiger Woods, Craig with an iron, yeah you've got some options here Phil, with that club you can take that left bunker out of play, they're around of 255. The wind is useful here, it is very pressing. between a couple of trees right in the center, I'll love that phil, those rare pitches are very tight, some players could go over those trees with them, 33 yards to the left, the whole location downwind from the left, maybe try a bit of a draw here, beautiful phil.

The tiger shot shown here after that terrible start would have been his fifth birdie in his last seven holes. I thought he was going to turn a little left. He did not do it. A stance so disappointed that he's going to fly this one down. the best of the three tigers, suddenly, just one shot back, tee shot here for Tiger Street downwind, this 500 yard par 4, then you hit it over the tree, there's water all day on the left, I think this is a useful breeze. to the right, yes this is the tree Craig is talking about, even a little to the left if it's downwind, but if you push it to the right you will be blocked by the trees facing a little to the right, you cross the street towards the raw oh, that's ideal. greens, yes, well, in Japan most courses have two greens on each hole.

Some of them play in different seasons. They play different greens. One of the best iron players in the history of the game and he likes this one with a good line. A fantastic shot. Another great one. birdie opportunity with a new putter a couple of days ago but he still has the trusty one in the bag and that's why he made birdie number six and guess who is at the top of the leaderboard after three bogeys in a row , very good shot for sure in the middle of the green is where he wants it, that's where it's very, very mentally intense, but still there's that calm, that relaxed feeling about the way his body seems to function.

He had a great swing of the putter. Got a great look here. I hope this is so. pretty close looks good looks good Seventh birdie in the last 10 holes for Tiger Woods about two and a half inches and they're not cutting it fancy follow through just drill it yeah that's a beautiful shot just running down the course it's very advanced that one time to protect your body continue down that path shot on this par 5'6 for tigre 91 yards here for tigre just can't miss left a significant drop from this flight under another birdie opportunity going up that left hand extremely good read tommy's drop he left once he got towards the hole must brilliant hands will work on this shot this actually jumped a little coming off the sharp shot obviously not his best row nine weeks away I'm surprised how sharp he was around the Grain talked about activating the switch at 14 after three consecutive bogeys.

It's amazing how the best players in the world have the ability to make mid-round adjustments. Yes, that's true, but we said it yesterday in the pre-game. Steve one of the things. the last few years not the best of lies, frank 194 yards with an eight iron, just be careful he doesn't get out of here on a jump shot and go ahead and put

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thing in, feed, the wind is useful, center, center of the green. maybe 25 feet next to the flag, I think that would not be ideal often has a slightly different routine for solving a problem once it is established it is one look and that's it, one look the contact was good, but it seems to me that it was left to the flag wasn't much left in his best opening round in the first round of any pga

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season for Tiger, topping a 66 in 2007 at Torrey Pines, the key here guys is to get it in the fairway because Frank mentioned that his favorite it's three wood for tiger standing on the right trying to draw in the next other team from Japan just 132 yards for tiger really working on changing his trajectory up the range this little low draw working towards the flag oh yeah how's that good start?

It's leaning to the left but then late type of wanders to the right played as straight, ok this is the nine that Steve recorded, check that one out, yeah it looked pretty solid, stood up nicely on his forehead, very good stance , ooh, that sat at that level too and then made its way to the pga

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and we got to know them very well watching them in tournaments like the east lake cup, there are second place tigers that take real risks, if you want to find something that works for them, maybe it's a little out of the ordinary, the tiger is now on par. the broken pots on the right I barely had a right to the ones on the left that were right to left get a better angle for that whole location there's also a nine iron for Tiger Germany flights these a little bit lower you can shape it any way you want oh , it wasn't his The best, yes, was a slight pull to the left of the flag, running towards it with a low ball and that's where it started and cutting the ideal shot.

A good tee shot here Thursday's draw would ideally be set up with a left to right wind and it starts in the middle and that's just wind, just holding it here just fell to the right at the end but the pace was brilliant there's no Not many spectators and not so many distractions, it feels like an informal practice round, but deep down in your mind you know it. the round absolutely counts, just a little cut shot here, I slide down starting to the left and actually hook, that's the dreaded double cross right there, it settles into the rough by some of the best hands in the world of golf, but it is a challenge. a pretty good one right there, about five or six feet behind him, so it was a right-to-left mistake earlier in the second.

See how he handles this one. Oh, well done, nice putt there in the corner and this is trying to cut, but for me. being downwind you may run out of room, yes it takes a big bounce into the trees too, frank I think going 120 yards would be great, check down and hopefully not go across the street, It's still okay, is he really doing it towards him? center of the green I think it's like a little jump step there added a little more juice to that a lot less loft here going up the slope a lot of green that can use no one checked a little faster than they would have liked I have another Freedom no It's at that level right now, but this is another important part.

You certainly don't hit a six on a par five. Well, walk that one, I think it has a much flatter path and it pulls and doesn't try to cut, okay. He's not as sharp with his irons today and he's a couple of times behind. Look, he's very comfortable putting left to right this week and we welcome Tiger Woods back to the tee with the fairway wood. Yes, I just knocked down three pieces of wood in all this time. I glided straight downwind and cutting the right side here, Phil came off that a little bit and we'll miss the fairway to the right bunker and the flagpole, this one dove way up and found the front bunker dropped.

Well, I need a little more short game magic during the commercial break. You would have seen Tiger's bunker shot. This one played very well. He's got such good hands, doesn't he, Phil? But the lie was very beautiful because there are no people here. he asks, he's focused but maybe not the ingrained intensity that in him the breeze has cooled here and back to his face going to the left it rattles around the trees oh how's that so different from what happened last night? six when he just ran through the trees like a tiger back into the wind? and he chases it to the green, so unlike yesterday, the front nine is one under par and remember the tenth is now playing at just 140 yards.

I love his short iron swing and well, you can't see the result, although he makes a pretty good quick putt. going down the hill he's using he's won 14 major

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s with oh no oh damn oh no come on I mean he was squirming down the hill but it looked like he was going to grab enough of the lip, it starts on the right and the For me, the action looked like it should be turning left, that was his best finish on his front, going through the ball with the driver we've seen all day at the place and we hit this a little left of the hole he has a putt of break from left to right, that's it, and he's that accurate, go right under him, a friend built in 1965.

Stay up, he caught Tiger Woods' left corner with a birdie here on walk 11, that one maybe a tight cut started on the left. but i think this is over, frank, you're saying you're right about those fields, you could look for this thing to jump on, it's only 182 in front, only 12 left. enough green to work with, let's see if it goes. with something a little less elevated, well done, mirror formality angle, that whole location perched there that was a nine just left of the flag, looks like a little putt from left to right, he left himself and we know all about That, look at this, look at that boy. looks great on those putts right now some weeks grimace through the ball there, but find that first cut of rough sits really well on that first cut with a flatter ball flight.

It's interesting you'd say that year so you saw him come off the practice field talking to pat perez and laughing and a couple other guys tried to play captain and they just flew too far off the green the trick is figuring out which one to use crashing around here is interesting that you chose the chip they are cutting Through that first cut, many players would have put that or the belly to wedge, that second three wood here for the tiger and it's hanging down on the right side, it seems to me that it should find the street, so there you have it, that's a strategy three.

I'd just slide it down a little bit, oh hang up, he's trying, he sneaks away. I've seen it on so many different occasions, he takes the four from him, however, on the 15th and goes three holes to finish in this second round, don't miss this green. okay so cut it towards the right hole location that's what he tried to do but he pulled out another iron shot he should find the grain okay I was going to say the water is hiding on the left side but okay Oh, that wasn't his best putt. The week has had a good pace for the most part, but it was a very slow putt, how will his body take it?

It's a big question mark. Put this on the one hand. Yeah, I'm right in the middle of the hole, so it's getting hard to see too. No problem. Seeing this Phil right in the center, beautiful, that was long too, flew it 300 yards, works downhill, which will leave you a short approach here, solid hit, moving it towards a flag, little cut, oh, beautiful , beautiful. The previous one bounced here with an impressive birdie, they were two beautiful shots, he launched very high but he drifted to the right into that first bunker across the fairway, unfortunately, before reachingHe inflated enough to reach the flag, well hit towards the center of the green. oh yeah look this couldn't be better than a 3-4 finish, he was flawless in the first round after that slow start today, he's just being patient, I think that's the way for Eagle at 18 years old. that goes in, so Tiger Woods has a two-stroke lead through 36 holes of this first

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Zozo, just back up to the flag, Steve, that's something we're going to hear a lot, hearing those engines in those cameras moving away. this in the chasing group this is oh okay this starts in the center of the green but it just doesn't cut it's going to be a good shot although he's been feeling it with the putter all week he needs to get down well get out a little bit a little bit lower, says hammer to the left side of the green, oh and the lead is now back to the first three two rounds, but it doesn't cut just to go up.

That's a dangerous combination, well it may have hit the fairway here, Phil , a nice little smooth slice, that was a free swing, it went through that wall, that was fabulous, they even called their names, it just went to this different place, you can see the. Look at his face, he was just 119 back to that flag, you can see the line that some in the game have drawn to the level that Tiger has bled, particularly when you continue to view pressure situations as an opportunity here to extend his lead this time. on a tight field i have felt very comfortable hitting the cut and that's what he's trying to do here he can't be drifting to the right that won't make it yes you won't give an inch just four yards behind this flag it stands that soap sheet is a little divided into zones, the t-shirt and the tiger in second place are and it is just to the left of the flag, try to draw that one that came out a little in front of it now on the right, it seems that the worst thing shoot is what he hits or when he tries to draw it a little bit so you put this ball back with the face a little bit open like he was going to block it pretty high in the air let's see what he does he took it low yeah it was a bad hit He stuck the club into the ground, one more clean shot maybe than he thought, so he'll have a nice fourth easier round on the golf course, as usual, with full control, too much on the high side, yeah, That's where it's slowly heading. now he's like limping halfway for sure, he didn't like that, but you're sure to head to par 518 to lead this right of the flag, look at his attention like you're saying frank, you had wow, there you go, well, bye and This one moves to the right, I think this is the one that hit that heavy tiger forest, well, this one didn't throw this cut to the flanks, that beautiful shot, well, this one didn't throw this cut to the flanks, that beautiful shot, this is what you're trying to Get it down the right side of the trees, this starts on the left and trying to cut, it's up there, green light, yeah, trying to cut safely towards the center of the ring, right on the High side, one maybe 27 holes, really not much, I thought. he was going to turn it looked like he was going to turn it let's let the fans tell you if this birdie putt is going home here this is the five wood and on the right side of the fairway trying to turn around he sat down it wasn't his best putt great speed high cut on that golf swing beautiful shot that started in the center of the green is going to miss the fairway oh great kick oh my goodness start towards the senator sound it may be a miss and in the front bunker it is going to be denied by the rich twelve good wasted opportunity there this starts on the left side second shot now for tigre here at 14 cent 321 yards was watching closely what nazion was doing on the green has a chance to make birdie simply the best built with the driver trying to get that bunker much higher on a very good line, oh, it went left, so the lead remains at three, well, there it actually started at the flag and cut it towards the grain set, it was He pulled to the right, I think it was out of place. of a mystery too much damage done is a part I've done exactly that how beautiful it was a devastating start on the center green it just never cut maybe I have to work to think that's what he had in mind when he got to the 17th right where you'd expect as we watch the winning putt and it's great to hear him say one more time