Woods Finds 14/14 Albany Fairways Battling A Temperature Of 102 Degrees.

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Nassau, Bahamas …

Tiger Woods managed to hit 14 of 14 fairway despite struggling with a temperature of 102 in Wednesday’s Hero World Challenge Pro-Am here at the Albany club in the Bahamas.

Woods revealed he was struggling with a ‘bug’ picked-up from son, Charlie while his oldest child and daughter, Sam is currently home from school with ‘pink eye’ – a form of conjunctivitis.

“It’s just one those things where children pick-up an illness from their school buddies and it’s carried to members of the family,” said Woods.

“I’ve been struggling with a temperature of around 102 but l then like a lot of these things, it’s got to get worse before it gets better.”

What did delight Woods was securing a first hole-in-one in nearly 20-years and just two days after losing $9m to arch-rival Phil Mickelson.

“In my best years I’ve ever had hitting the golf ball and I’ve never had a hole-in-one,” said Woods.

“For some reason it took me 20-years so after never making one this century, lo and behold I make my 20th.”

Woods was playing alongside his son Charlie and Fred Couples just two days before losing to Phil Mickelson in The Match and with the 14-time Major winner using a 5-iron to ace the 210-yard, par-3 second hole at Madison Club at La Quinta in California.

“Somehow when we got to the green we couldn’t find my ball,” he said.

“I thought it might be over the back of the green but I thought to myself that I hit it a lot softer than that.

“And then we get up there on the green it’s in the hole.”

Woods had grabbed his first ace on his PGA Tour pro debut at the Greater Milwaukee Open in 1996, but produced the most famous ace of his career holing out a year later in the Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale’s and at the infamous ‘Stadium Hole’ at the par-3 16th.

Just 18 players will tee-up on the Albany course in the Bahamas and with Justin Rose needing to finish T2nd or better to go back to World No. 1 for a fourth time in recent months.



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