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| AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods, who stands three strokes off the lead after 36 holes of the Masters at Augusta, faced disqualification on Saturday for an incident involving a ball drop on the 15th hole of his second round a day earlier. He remains in the field as the Augusta National rules committee reviewed the incident. | AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods, who stands three strokes off the lead after 36 holes of the Masters at Augusta, faced disqualification on Saturday for an incident involving a ball drop on the 15th hole of his second round a day earlier. He remains in the field as the Augusta National rules committee reviewed the incident. |
| On the hole in question, a 530-yard par 5, Woods’s approach shot clanked off the flagstick on Friday and caromed into the water. He took a drop two yards behind his original divot and hit his approach to inside three feet. In his comments after his round, he seemed to incriminate himself when he explained his thought process on the drop. | |
| Woods did not sound like someone who was making the drop as close to the original spot as possible when he said: “Well, I went down to the drop area, that wasn’t going to be a good spot, because obviously it’s into the grain, it’s really grainy there. And it was a little bit wet. So it was muddy and not a good spot to drop. So I went back to where I played it from, but two yards further back, and I took, tried to take two yards off the shot of what I felt I hit.” | Woods did not sound like someone who was making the drop as close to the original spot as possible when he said: “Well, I went down to the drop area, that wasn’t going to be a good spot, because obviously it’s into the grain, it’s really grainy there. And it was a little bit wet. So it was muddy and not a good spot to drop. So I went back to where I played it from, but two yards further back, and I took, tried to take two yards off the shot of what I felt I hit.” |
| “And that should land me short of the flag and not have it either hit the flag or skip over the back,” he said. “I felt that that was going to be the right decision to take off four right there. And I did. It worked out perfectly.” | “And that should land me short of the flag and not have it either hit the flag or skip over the back,” he said. “I felt that that was going to be the right decision to take off four right there. And I did. It worked out perfectly.” |
| Woods, a four-time Masters champion in search of his 15th major title, has been guilty of a rules infraction already this year that cost him a weekend of work. In the second round of his season opener in Abu Dhabi, he missed the cut after being penalized two strokes for wrongly taking a free drop. His ball was embedded in sand, from which there is no relief. | |
| On Friday, Woods was asked about the one-stroke penalty for slow play that assessed to Guan Tianlang, the young golfer from China. “Well, rules are rules,” he said. |