Tiger Woods is stumped as he is stuck at 50th place to defend his Memorial Golf Tournament title in Dublin, Ohio. “Wish I could have been lower,” Tiger said. He certainly could have been if he did better on those par 5 holes. However, this is not the case as he mostly ended up even. His opponents got almost all birdies. His par did him no good though.

Geoff Ogilvy, the favorite in the competition, ended on the same time Thursday evening as Tiger. There was a disparity though. One was on the 9th and the other on the 18th. Ogilvy led by seven strokes and was 50 places away from Tiger too. Ogilvy got a par on the ninth and tied for first while Tiger got par on the eighteenth and tied for fiftieth.
The Memorial Tournament was held at the Muirfield Village golf course and was greeted in the morning by a downpour that delayed play for 2 hours. Later, there was another 45 minute pause because of the weather. The downpour had softened the course to the satisfaction of the leaders. Ogilvy and the other co-leaders, Rose and Fowler, capitalized on what they saw as the easiest conditions to play on.

It was obvious that they indeed found the course easier due to the downpour. On the four par 5 holes, Ogilvy and Fowler got -3. Rose got -1 but that was already better than Woods’ performance. Woods had am excuse though. It was apparent that he had only played 9 competitive rounds this year. The others had enough practice for them to be precise in their shots.