Tiger Woods sends driver down the middle

Tiger Woods swung driver on the seventh hole and it went right down the middle. His driver, not the golf ball. This wasn’t a fit of disgust Sunday at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, rather one of those times where Woods feels trapped between the old swing he is trying to forget and the new one he is trying to build. He let the club go after impact, and it traveled some 15 feet. The golf ball went 275 yards, offline and near the face of a bunker. Woods said loud enough for those around him to hear, “Old swing, new release pattern.” His earlier birdie was erased by a bogey on that hole, just as three straight birdies to start the back nine were erased by a triple bogey. It added to an even-par 72 and his worst position in 17 trips to TPC, a tie for 69th place. – AP