Tiger Woods is watching the PGA in his new sports bar

Woods figured he’d be back home in Florida in time to do what most golf fans were planning to do – watch the leaders tee off.

He finished outside the top 100 on the week in strokes gained putting, which won’t win you the Phoenix Open, much less the PGA Championship. But he will be looking over his shoulder at a strong field closing in behind.

The man has major problems.

Woods had a 73, finishing Saturday morning after storms interrupted his second round. e has failed to break par in his last seven rounds at the majors, the longest such streak of his career. As does Jones who faded badly on the back nine. He followed with a bogey on No. 8, and suddenly a two-shot lead has turned into a one-shot deficit.

This is a player who not only has lost the consistent physical edge that allowed him to be one of golf’s most dominant players for more than a decade.

Maybe it’s a good sign that Rory McIlroy was disappointed with his second-round play, which produced a second straight 71 to put the defending champion in comfortable position heading into the weekend. His schedule is fairly limited after that – the Frys.com Open in Napa, California, in October, and then probably one event in Shanghai and the European Tour finale in Dubai. He moved to 4 over with a birdie from 14 feet on the 17th. “And to have the control that I need to have going forward, it’s starting to come back”. “The putter was rolling today which was great”.

“Yeah, I was disappointed [with shooting 89], but that one round of golf is not going to define my experience here”.

Pressure, in effect, to be the Tiger Woods he used to be-before the fourth knee surgery, before the back surgery, before yet another change in swing coach and before Woods’ tidy and private little world collapsed because of his well-publicized sex scandal.

“Tomorrow looks like it will be tougher conditions”, Spieth said. “I look at the fact that it’s just another opportunity to get better and try and take myself to the next level and whatever that is, it is”.

“So I got my lines organised, and all of a sudden I was seeing my line again”.

Not in the majors, at least, which if Woods is being honest, is all that matters to him. It’s also the first time in his career he’s missed four cuts in a season. He missed the cut.

Asked on Saturday whether his decision to play or not to play Wyndham depends on his status of getting into the playoffs, Woods said, “I think it’s more just building. I just never got a putt”. I finally rolled the ball coming in and unfortunately it was too little, too late.

Day made a birdie on the par-5 16th hole to get to 10 under par. But the Northern Irishman, who missed last month’s Open Championship in St. Andrews after damaging ankle ligaments playing football with friends, faltered with bogeys on 6 and 8. This came a day after he was heard uttering, in leaving a putt well short on the third green, what the golf world in general has long been asking and that was to scream: “What the f*** are you doing?”

Phil Mickelson? Too aw-shucks.

It’s been a lean couple of years for the 45-year-old lefty who last won a major in 2013.