Rickie Fowler Aims To Defend Honda Classic Title At PGA National

Tiger Woods heads to PGA National in Florida today in the next instalment of his comeback to tournament golf acknowledging that he needs time to progress after his spinal fusion. He birdied the next hole to grab a share of the lead.

Fighting through stiff winds hovering around 20 miles per hour, Woods’ ball striking looked better than it had all season, as he hit 50 percent of the fairways and 55 percent of the greens. “I need a couple Advil just to – I’ve got a headache after all that”. “You have to hit greens and you have to just take your chances when they come along”. Steaming from those unforced errors, he was between a 2- and 3-iron off the tee.

With one Egyptian Goose wandering by the flag and another standing just off the putting surface, Garcia took matters into his own hands to try and shoo them away from the action. Discourteous behavior formerly more accepted at Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium than the fairways of the PGA Tour has become par for the course, thanks in large part to the annual beer kegger that is the Phoenix Open, where rowdies are encouraged to heckle and jeer.

Woods will tee off with Snedeker and Kizzire again Friday at 12:35 p.m. ET.

Rickie Fowler is defending champion in The Honda Classic at PGA National and will be up against a field including Rory McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods.

“My diet is now extremely strict but I feel good now, I have a lot of energy”, Hoffman said. “It was really tough”. Give him a little bit of time.

To that point, his proximity to the hole on Thursday was 28 feet, 11 inches-or more than 11 feet better than in his first two starts of the year at Torrey Pines and Riviera.

Glover’s strength is his long game and he’s now 8th in Strokes Gained: Off-The-Tee this season and 33rd in Greens In Regulation.

In Doha, and it is look a very even field and that makes a victor hard for sure, but I fancy one of the Scots to go well like Richie Ramsay or Stephen Gallacher. “Today was not easy”.

“He will definitely get another major; his game is good enough to do that but it’s just not good enough to do it on demand”, Harrington said. It was tough all around today.

This marks Woods’ third Tour start after undergoing surgery to fuse his back.

But given the windswept conditions, it was hardly that bad.

“I got exposed there on the back nine with three three-putts, ” he said. So it was a long period of time where I was really struggling. If he can play at a high level from start to finish, Walker might be the biggest surprise of the tournament as he is more than capable of vying for the win this week.

Speaking of PGA National, he once said: “I love these kind of golf courses, it’s a ball-hitter’s course”.