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LSU's Tiger Stadium Open For Public Tours

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LSU Tiger Stadium Open for Public Tours

June 11, 2021

BATON ROUGE – Fans now have an opportunity to tour Tiger Stadium and see some of the iconic areas within Death Valley as the LSU Athletic Department is offering public tours to the best stadium in college football this summer.

Tours will be held Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day with the exception of Wednesday when the morning tour will start at 9 a.m. Summer tours begin next Monday, June 14 and run through the month of August. Fall and spring tour days and times will be announced later.

Fans can book their tours now at www.LSUsports.net/tours .

Some of the highlights of the Tiger Stadium tour include being able to walk through the Jeff Boss Locker Room, the same facility the Tigers use on game day. In addition, fans will be able to walk through the chute and touch the “WIN” bar.

Other stops along the 45-minute tour include the Bill Lawton Room, where many of LSU’s championship trophies and other memorabilia is housed; the Ready Room, and the North Stadium Plaques display where LSU’s national award winners are recognized outside of Tiger Stadium.

Fans are encouraged to take photos and to share their Tiger Stadium tour experience by tagging @LSUfootball in their social posts.

Public tours are capped at 25 people with pricing set at $10 for adults and $5 for children under the age of 13. Group tours of more than 25 people can also be accommodated by contacting the LSU Athletic Ticket Office at 225.578.2184.

Parking for tour goers is located in the metered spaces located on West Stadium Drive just outside the Lawton Room. Metered spaces are also available in Lot 401, which is located off of South Stadium Drive.

Tours will begin at the Lawton Room- located on the northwest corner of Tiger Stadium and fans are asked to arrive no earlier than 15 minutes prior to tour time. Tickets for tours much be purchased at least 24 hours in advance.

For more information visit www.LSUsports.net/tours .

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LSU To Offer Tours of Tiger Stadium

If you’ve ever enjoyed a Louisiana Saturday night under the bright lights of Tiger Stadium, you have a really cool chance to see some of the most iconic areas of the arena starting next week.

Tours will be held Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. CT and 2 p.m. each day with the exception of Wednesdays when the morning tour will start at 9 a.m. Summer tours begin Monday, June 14, and run through the month of August. Fall and spring tour days and times will be announced later.

Some of the highlights of the Tiger Stadium tour include being able to walk through the Jeff Boss Locker Room, the same facility the Tigers use on game day. In addition, fans will be able to walk through the chute and touch the “WIN” bar.

Other stops along the 45-minute tour include the Bill Lawton Room, where many of LSU’s championship trophies and other memorabilia is housed; the Ready Room, and the North Stadium Plaques display where LSU’s national award winners are recognized outside of Tiger Stadium.

For more information about how to book a spot in the tour, click here .

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LSU’s Tiger Stadium open for tours

• June 11, 2021
• By Michael Bonnette
• Category: College Football , LSU

BATON ROUGE – Fans now have an opportunity to tour Tiger Stadium and see some of the iconic areas within Death Valley as the LSU Athletic Department is offering public tours to the best stadium in college football this summer.

Tours will be held Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day with the exception of Wednesday when the morning tour will start at 9 a.m. Summer tours begin next Monday, June 14 and run through the month of August. Fall and spring tour days and times will be announced later. Fans can book their tours now at www.LSUsports.net/tours.

Some of the highlights of the Tiger Stadium tour include being able to walk through the Jeff Boss Locker Room, the same facility the Tigers use on game day. In addition, fans will be able to walk through the chute and touch the “WIN” bar.

Other stops along the 45-minute tour include the Bill Lawton Room, where many of LSU’s championship trophies and other memorabilia is housed; the Ready Room, and the North Stadium Plaques display where LSU’s national award winners are recognized outside of Tiger Stadium.

Fans are encouraged to take photos and to share their Tiger Stadium tour experience by tagging @LSUfootball in their social posts.

Public tours are capped at 25 people with pricing set at $10 for adults and $5 for children under the age of 13. Group tours of more than 25 people can also be accommodated by contacting the LSU Athletic Ticket Office at 225.578.2184.

Parking for tour goers is located in the metered spaces located on West Stadium Drive just outside the Lawton Room. Metered spaces are also available in Lot 401, which is located off of South Stadium Drive.

Tours will begin at the Lawton Room- located on the northwest corner of Tiger Stadium and fans are asked to arrive no earlier than 15 minutes prior to tour time. Tickets for tours much be purchased at least 24 hours in advance.

For more information visit www.LSUsports.net/tours .

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Samvel Gasparov , a movie director, tells the story about MJ' show in Moscow in 1993:

'I heard about Michael Jackson for the first time back in the 70's. I even knew some of his songs, but I never was a fan. When I worked as a truck driver, I used to listen to Georgian music. Later, when I went to college, I grew to like Joe Dassin, Charles Aznavour, Tom Jones, and Engelbert Humperdinck. But I always knew about Jackson, and I knew that he was a good singer. In the early 90's my dream was to make a movie called "Run brother, run". American filmmakers expressed some interest in the script, and in 1992 I went to Romania where we rented a foundation. As it happened, Michael Jackson was giving a show in Bucharest at that time, and I was introduced to his producer Marcel Avram by one of our mutual friends. Marcel asked me to help them tape Michael's concert, and I did what I could. It was a pleasure. The performance left me stunned. Jackson impressed me very much – he was a genius, that's no question. I was personally introduced to him, and I remember shaking his cool pale hand. On the second day at dinner I told Avram about my wish to make a movie in the USA and my need for money. I already had an offer for five movies and lodging in the US by then. "I like you", Avram said. "If you want, we can bring Michael to Moscow. Then you can organize a show and make some money." I thought it would be cool, but I honestly didn't believe it was possible. But soon after that Avram sent his people to Moscow in order to check out Dessa, the company I headed at the time. It was one of the first Russian private companies created for the purpose of movie making, and I had some good folks on my team.

Suddenly the project came to life. Money was pushed to the background in my mind. I was full of enthusiasm, I wanted to bring that joyful event to people – after all, it was the first time a big Star was going to visit Russia. Since the visit of Avram's delegation and till September 1993 we were busy with preparations. It was my first experience in show business, and I couldn't imagine that it would be that hard and unpredictable. I thought that all showbiz "sharks" would support me and help me with that project, but it turned out the other way round – they threw obstacles in my way and tried to prevent the show from happening. We felt that our efforts were not appreciated. We even got phone calls with threats. And we got attacked by the media: they wrote that I was the king of the liquor industry and the head of the Chechen mafia. They said I was organizing the show in order to sell vodka on the stadium. It was a nightmare! They also wrote garbage about Jackson – that he was a pedophile, and that I was going to bring not him, but his impersonator who would lip synch to his songs. But all this crap only turned us on. We decided that we would make the show happen no matter what.

On September 15, 1993 Michael postpones his flight out of Moscow, Russia, and instead goes to visit a hospital for mentally challenged children there, who rejoice at seeing him and fight for his attention. One of his aides says that the singer has asked for one of the children to be flown to America for care and treatment which Jackson will pay for. The singer holds a few children in his arms and on his lap, comforts and plays with them and wishes to entertain them: “I’d like to sing with them. We all know a song together”, he says, visibly emotional. He also visits children in a nearby orphanage, who will sing a song to him in Russian, turning him – the ultimate performer, into an attentive spectator.

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Tiger Woods vows to play final round after painful Saturday at Masters

Tiger Woods during the third round of the 2024 Masters Tournament. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Was in discomfort ‘all day’ in carding highest-ever round at Augusta National

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AUGUSTA, Ga. – A hobbled Tiger Woods said he will be back for the final round of the 88th Masters Tournament on Sunday despite being in obvious discomfort for parts of Round 3 when he shot 82, his highest-ever score at Augusta National.

The round was his seventh score of 80 or higher in any event, and his fourth in a major.

He winced after some shots, like his second at the par-4 ninth, and made uncharacteristic mistakes that had some wondering if he would withdraw. Still, when asked to identify the biggest challenge he faced, he did not mention his battered body.

“The fact that I was not hitting it very good or putting well,” he said. “I didn't have a very good warmup session, and I kept it going all day today. Just hit the ball in all the places that I know I shouldn't hit it. And I missed a lot of putts. Easy, makable putts. I missed a lot of them.”

Woods, 48, has endured multiple back operations, and after being forced to withdraw from last year’s Masters flew to New York for right ankle fusion surgery. He said earlier this week that he is physically challenged by any shot that isn’t on a tee box, a nod to Augusta’s hilly terrain.

What’s more, Woods has not completed four rounds in an official PGA TOUR event since The Genesis Invitational in early 2023.

On Saturday he acknowledged that he was in pain “all day” throughout the third round, like when he tried to shape a left-to-right approach shot out of the trees to the ninth green. (He made bogey.) He was limping slightly and sweating profusely upon walking off the last hole.

Woods insisted after Round 2 that he had a chance to add to his five Masters titles.

Alas, his hopes ended abruptly Saturday. Although he birdied the difficult par-4 fifth hole, Woods seemed to lose focus as he bogeyed the par-3 sixth and then made back-to-back double-bogeys on the seventh and eighth holes. He bogeyed the ninth for a front-nine 42.

“It's just that I haven't competed and played much,” he said. “When I had chances to get it flipped around and when I made that putt at 5, I promptly three-putted 6 and flub a chip at 7 and just got it going the wrong way, and when I had opportunities to flip it, I didn't.”

The 82-time PGA TOUR winner insisted he would return for the final round Sunday.

“My team will get me ready,” he said. “Kolb (physical therapist Kolby Tullier) has been awesome. It will be a long night and a long warmup session, but we'll be ready.”

Cameron Morfit is a Staff Writer for the PGA TOUR. He has covered rodeo, arm-wrestling, and snowmobile hill climb in addition to a lot of golf. Follow Cameron Morfit on Twitter .

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Torpedo Stadium: A living history of Soviet soccer

Renovation will open a new chapter in the history of Streltsov Stadium. For the fans, however, this place will always be linked with the one man who was and remains a legend of Soviet soccer, Eduard Streltsov. Source: Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti

Torpedo Stadium—Moscow’s oldest—will soon be closed for renovation. This field, which has been owned by businessman Mikhail Prokhorov ’s ONEXIM Group since 2007, is to be transformed into a modern sports complex where, in addition to a covered stadium, there are plans to build children’s sports schools and a museum of Russian soccer.

The building may not turn out to be as big as the Barclays Center in Brooklyn (which the Russian billionaire built for his NBA team, the Brooklyn Nets ), but Torpedo fans have already expressed their concerns about the new building. The original plan was to completely demolish the stadium and develop the site as exclusive housing; however, when thousands of supporters signed a petition against the demolition of the stadium, the owners decided to preserve the sports facility.

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Torpedo Stadium is unique, in a way. There are hardly any top-level spectacles here, as the home team plays in the second soccer division. Moreover, since August 2013, the Torpedo team has had to move: The club began playing its home games in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoye, due to high rent.

Meanwhile, the stadium on Vostochnaya Street has become a favorite training ground for the Russian national soccer team, and, in August, the two best American football teams in Russia— Black Storm and the Moscow Patriots —played each other on the local field.

The Streltsov Torpedo Stadium is not located in the most picturesque of areas: Factory chimneys and brick walls stand alongside typical dismal Soviet-era buildings. It was here that, in 1924, the workers of the ZIL car factory started the Torpedo club.

Torpedo has always been a local soccer team. The car makers were nowhere near as popular as Spartak, which enjoyed national fame, and the black-and-whites could not boast of government patronage, as Dynamo could. In some ways, this is why the residents of Moscow’s Avtozavodsky District are so devoted to their club, despite the fact that, in the 2000s, the team did not experience the best of times.

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Problems with finance mean the club has had to rely on young players it has developed itself, and Torpedo has not been able to get back into the Premier League for the last seven years. In a world of multi-million-dollar soccer transfers, Torpedo looks like a dinosaur that has somehow managed to survive.

Torpedo Stadium has never known the glory of Luzhniki, which served as the main stadium of the 1980 Olympics and the venue for the 2008 Champions League final. The field on Vostochnaya Street has never been Moscow’s main stadium, but, for Torpedo supporters, it is a shrine. This is where Eduard Streltsov—probably the best soccer players in Soviet history, if we leave aside the great Dynamo goalkeeper Lev Yashin—played and caught fans’ imagination.

Streltsov’s story is like a Hollywood film. At the age of 16, the wunderkind from a working-class suburb of Moscow became Torpedo’s main forward; at 17, he made a triumphant debut for the Soviet national team, scoring a hat trick in his first two games; at 18, he was the top goal-scorer in the Soviet league. Tall and strong, and with a broad grin, the young man caught everyone’s attention, on the field and off it.

His contemporaries recall that Streltsov played almost like a genius: His faultless technique, combined with his superb ability to read the game, enabled him to pull off real masterpieces of soccer, time and again. In 1956, the 19-year-old Streltsov was the key player on the Soviet team at the Melbourne Olympics, where the Soviet soccer players won gold for the first time in team history.

“He seemed to have the ball on a lead, and his ball control could get him past two or three defenders,” said defender Vladimir Ponomarev, Streltsov’s teammate on the Soviet national team, in an interview with Sovetsky Sport. “He had an exceptional soccer mind. He could anticipate and work out how the attack would develop, like a computer—several moves ahead, automatically, in an instant.”

The 1958 world championship should have been a golden moment for the Russian king of soccer, but Streltsov did not get to meet the other king of soccer—Brazil’s Pele—on the Swedish field. On June 15, while the Soviet team was losing 2-0 to Brazil, Streltsov was being interrogated by investigators at Moscow’s Butyrka prison. He had been arrested on May 27, on suspicion of rape during a party at a dacha not far from the Tarasovka sports center, where the Soviet team was preparing for the tournament. Streltsov was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Arguments about how just the court’s decision was continue to this day. Some say Streltsov’s imprisonment was revenge by the KGB for his refusal to transfer to the Dynamo club, which was under the control of the special services; others link the sportsman’s drama to his refusal to marry the daughter of the iron lady of the Soviet government, the influential Yekaterina Furtseva. Doubt has been cast on many of the circumstances of that fateful night. It is likely that the truth of this story will never be known, but, in spite of everything, Streltsov will always be an idol to Torpedo fans.

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Streltsov was given early release in 1963, and, after another two years, he was allowed to return to top-level soccer. At the age of 28, Streltsov took to the field again in a black-and-white Torpedo uniform. Even after six years in prison, there was no getting away from his talent: The powerful forward again became the leader of the Torpedo front line, taking his team to the championship in 1965.

The secret of Streltsov’s popularity was not just that he played like a genius. Supporters saw him as one of their own: While he was a professional sportsman, he continued to work at the factory and live in an ordinary apartment not far from the stadium. After Streltsov’s death (he died from lung cancer in 1990), officials decided to put up a monument to the soccer player by the entrance to the field; since 1997, the stadium itself has borne his name.

Renovation will open a new chapter in the history of Streltsov Stadium. Only time will tell to what extent it will preserve its inimitable atmosphere. For the fans, however, this place will always be linked with the one man who was and remains a legend of Soviet soccer.

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Latest sign Tiger Woods is planning to play the Masters. He's on the interview schedule

Here's the latest sign Tiger Woods will attempt to play next week's Masters at Augusta National. According to the PGA Tour, Woods is listed on the pre-tournament interview schedule.

Woods last played on the PGA Tour in the Genesis Invitational in February, withdrawing with flu-like symptoms after having suffered back spasms a day earlier. The 48-year-old, who has been the subject of much speculation regarding this year's Masters, played at Augusta National last weekend, according to a Sports Illustrated report.

On a call with reporters earlier this week, Notah Begay, a commentator for NBC Sports, said Woods' left ankle "doesn't move."

"He’s trying to formulate a strategy and approach that he can work within given the constraints that he’s presented with. And he’s got some constraints," Begay said on a conference call Wednesday. "He’s got zero mobility in that left ankle and really has low-back challenges now, which he knew he was going to have.”

He made his 23rd consecutive cut at Augusta last year but did not finish the tournament because he  withdrew with plantar fasciitis .

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Ex-Tigers employee inspires Detroit kids through his fascination with Jackie Robinson

Growing up in detroit, sam abrams played on a youth team nicknamed the pirates. but today as an adult, he inspires kids by teaching them about a legendary member of the dodgers--jackie robinson..

The date was April 15, 1947. And the line from a baseball box score showed that one player, who started the game at Ebbets Field playing first base for the host Brooklyn Dodgers, was hitless in three official at-bats.

Nonetheless, that same player found a way to score the deciding run in a 5-3 Dodgers victory over the Boston Braves, after reaching first base in the seventh inning following an error.

That player, who began the game wearing a pristine home white Dodgers uniform with the No. 42 on the back, was Jack Roosevelt Robinson.  

Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers marked the breaking of the “color line” in modern major league baseball, the same color line within professional baseball that had been broken in 1884 when another proud Black man, Moses Fleetwood Walker — a standout catcher on an undefeated University of Michigan baseball team in 1882 — integrated the American Association by joining the Toledo Blue Stockings.

The contributions to baseball history made by Walker — affectionately known as “Fleet” by students at the University of Michigan where he was enrolled in law school — are unknown to most people. But a lifelong Detroiter is on a mission to make sure Jackie Robinson’s legacy is never forgotten, particularly among young people in Detroit. 

“Jackie Robinson is definitely  the  trailblazer when it comes to African American athletes,” says Sam Abrams, who spoke during the late afternoon of April 10 prior to presenting a symposium focused on Robinson’s life to a group of Detroit students that participate in after-school activities at Tindal Recreation Center, 10301 West Seven Mile Road, near the McDowell neighborhood in northwest Detroit. “Think about what he was able to accomplish in the (19)40s, and even before the Brooklyn Dodgers in college (at UCLA) where he earned so many letters while excelling in different sports. And he did all of these things while overcoming barriers that we can’t even imagine today.” 

To better understand what brought the 56-year-old Abrams to Tindal on April 10 requires backtracking to a time when he served as the manager of Youth and Sports Programs and Player Relations for the Detroit Tigers. For over a decade, Abrams' duties included being a go-to person for youth coaches and other organizations that wished to connect with the Tigers in ways that enrich the Detroit community. As Abrams focused on doing good things for people in his hometown through his work, the Tigers also were pretty darn good on the playing field during most of those years that included multiple postseason appearances. But, despite the brilliance of Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander, Jim Leyland and others, Abrams said he found himself thinking more about a Hall of Famer who played his last game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. 

“I grew up playing baseball. And when I started working for the Tigers (in 2006), one of the projects that we had was an essay competition,” explained Abrams, who played second base for Chadsey High School (Class of 1985) and capped his high school career by playing in a Detroit Public School League championship game at Tiger Stadium. “But as I was looking at the essays, I realized that the kids had even more talent — they could think, they could draw and they could write poetry. So, I turned the competition into the Jackie Robinson Art, Essay and Poetry Competition. 

“And during the time that we were conducting the competitions, I just became more and more fascinated by Jackie Robinson and everything he overcame.”

Abrams' “fascination” with Robinson led Abrams to develop “The Nine Values of an American Legend,” a symposium focusing on values that Robinson’s life embodied, which Abrams first began presenting to young audiences in 2017.  

“Trying to teach young people about someone who broke the color barrier in 1947 before even many of their parents were born is somewhat of a stretch,” said Abrams, who substitutes baseball equipment like bats, balls and gloves, for visual presentations — such as movies about Robinson’s life and photos of Robinson and other inspirational people — and roundtable discussions during presentations that he tailors specifically for each young audience. “But the purpose of this program is to teach young people about those nine values — courage, commitment, citizenship, determination, excellence, teamwork, justice, persistence and integrity — and try to identify ways that they can incorporate them into their own lives.”

On April 10, with an audience of 14 students from Detroit schools, Abrams focused solely on two values, courage and commitment. However, for the enthusiastic symposium facilitator who was on his feet and often on the move during his hourlong presentation, his time spent at the center was about friendship, too, due to the presence of his friend of 50 years, Maria Adams-Lawton, who also is the executive director of the Tindal Recreation Center. 

“It’s just like watching our friendship come full circle,” said Adams-Lawton, who operates her nonprofit after-school program for youths, Healthy Kidz Inc., out of Tindal. “When Sam and I were younger, we never thought we would be doing the things that we’re doing now. We just played out in the middle of the street; and we would grab a stick to play baseball, or we would play football, and I would be the only girl out there running around. It’s just great to see how all of this has come to fruition as we pass off the baton to these young people. The kids hearing Sam’s presentation may not know anything about baseball and Jackie Robinson now, but guess what? They’re about to learn.”

Abrams and Adams-Lawton joked before the symposium that as children growing up on the “longest block in the world,” on Leslie Street in the Russell Woods neighborhood, that Adams-Lawton was always a happy passenger on the handlebars of “Dobby’s” (Abrams’ nickname in the neighborhood) bike whenever he rode to a park behind Winterhalter School to play baseball for the Pirates in the Broadstreet Presbyterian Church League. Abrams confided that producing the same level of joy among the students hearing his presentation on April 10 would be a far greater “challenge.” But judging from the way the boys and girls increased their level of participation in the discussions the longer the program went on and their studious expressions throughout, it was clear that by the time Abrams dismissed the group he had made an impression on the students.  

“Before this, I really didn’t know just how much Jackie Robinson was bullied for being Black on a baseball team,” said Deaven Johnson, a sixth grader at Bates Academy, who was able to build on information she learned in school about Robinson as a fifth grader. “I didn’t know how he felt about being bullied, and from what we saw today, I realized that he felt angry.” 

Johnson added that the program was “important” and “really cool,” which is why she said she will share what she learned with family and friends.

It was that type of response and willingness of the group as a whole to receive the information from Abrams that brought a smile to the face of Kimberly Hubbard, a child care specialist who works with youths that participate in morning and afternoon “latchkey programs” operated out of Tindal. 

“I love the knowledge they were given,” said Hubbard, whose smile and periodic nods of approval indicated what she felt about the material without Hubbard having to say a word. “They discussed courage and commitment, and I believe those values need to be pushed to this generation a little bit more. These kids need to learn how to find the courage to be themselves and what it means to be committed to a sport or any other activity that will help them to develop.” 

On Monday evening, April 15, Abrams, through The DAVAS Foundation, a nonprofit organization he established to “enrich the lives of youth aged 7-21 in the greater Detroit region,” expects to take 60 children and adults to Comerica Park when the Tigers host the Texas Rangers during major league baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day, which includes the wearing of Robinson’s retired jersey No. 42 by all players for one special day. 

Hubbard said she is happy for all of the people that will be attending the game and special ceremonies at Comerica Park. But she also is hopeful that Abrams will return to Tindal to teach the remainder of the nine values that Abrams teaches in the symposium. And in the process, she says, he will be strengthening what her center provides to the community. 

“Tindal is all about support,” says Hubbard, who, like a baseball utility player, handles many tasks on a daily basis, including helping with homework, engaging children in indoor and outdoor activities, providing emotional support, performing clerical duties and more. “The biggest thing is to make a difference in our community and that’s what I’m here for. Anything I’m asked to do, I do.” 

Scott Talley is a native Detroiter, a proud product of Detroit Public Schools and a lifelong lover of Detroit culture in its diverse forms. In his second tour with the Free Press, which he grew up reading as a child, he is excited and humbled to cover the city’s neighborhoods and the many interesting people who define its various communities. Contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @STalleyfreep. Read more of Scott's stories at  www.freep.com/mosaic/detroit-is/ . Please help us grow great community-focused journalism by  becoming a subscriber . 

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — After a record-setting performance in the first two rounds the Big Cat was back on the prowl this weekend at one of his favorite courses.

Tiger Woods set the all-time record for consecutive cuts made at the Masters on Friday when he signed for an even-par 73 in the second round to solidify his spot inside the cut line for a 24th consecutive start at the first men’s major championship of the season. In 26 career appearances at the Masters, his lone missed cut came in 1996 as an amateur.

Sitting T-22 at 1 over par for the tournament to start the day, Woods teed off at 12:45 p.m. ET alongside everyone’s favorite hothead Tyrrell Hatton in the third round on Saturday. Take a scroll below to see Tiger’s Moving Day round with shot-by-shot analysis from the 2024 Masters at Augusta National.

History at Augusta National

Jason Day greets Tiger Woods on the 18th green during the second round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Network

On Friday the 15-time major champion  shot an even-par 72 in the second round  of the  2024 Masters  to make his 24th consecutive cut at the Masters, the most all-time in the tournament’s illustrious history. The five-time Masters champion, in  his 26th Masters appearance , was previously tied with good friend Fred Couples (1983-2007) and Gary Player (1959-1982). In true Tiger fashion, Woods said he plans on texting Couples to “give him a little needle” for taking the outright record.

Pre-round thoughts

Tiger struggled to move around the property early Friday morning in brisk conditions, but a 12:45 p.m. ET tee time is just what the doctor ordered. His surgically held-together body from back to ankle thrives in warm weather, and there’s not a cloud in the sky here today at Augusta National. The wind will pick up as the day goes on, and Tiger will surely slow down as fatigue is bound to set in, but the conditions couldn’t be better for him today.

His putting as been suspect this week. Countless efforts for birdie and eagle have been left short in the first two rounds, and he’s struggled a bit with judging wind on approach shots. His driving, however, can’t get much better. He’s hit 22 of 28 fairways over the opening 36 holes – tied for his most in the first two rounds since 1999 – but has found just 17 of 36 greens in regulation.

If he can swing the big stick with confidence again today, we could be seeing some red numbers and circles on the scorecard.

Hole 1 – Par 4: Tea Olive

Tyrrell Hatton reacts after a putt on the sixth green during the first round of the 2024 Masters Tournament. (Photo: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Network)

First round: Birdie Second round: Par

Moving Day at Augusta National. Let’s have some fun, shall we?

Tiger has historically struggled on the par-4 opening hole (18 over) but he’s 1 under this week with a birdie in the first round and par in the second. He found the fairway off the tee with a smooth-swinging drive but left the approach on the front of the green. From there he’ll have a long way to go, uphill at that. Lag putting hasn’t quite been his best skill this week, but let’s see what he’s got today.

Not a bad effort from here as he rolls this one up just short and left of the pin to tap-in range for par. Steady start, we’re off and running (well, gingerly walking in Tiger’s case).

TIGER ON THE DAY: Even through 1 (1 over for the tournament)

Hole 2 – Par 5: White Dogwood

First round: Par Second round: Par

A solid swing again here from Tiger launches 300 yards down the right side of the fairway but rolls just to the first cut and rope line of patrons. Can’t say it enough how good he’s been with the big stick. Ah, he’s a true man of the people today as his approach was launched right again down right of the green and into the gallery. Someone’s getting a signed glove or ball in Souvenir City.

Tiger pitches this one over the bunker to the back-left pin locations but leaves it outside 10 feet, maybe 15 feet, short of the cup for his first legitimate birdie putt of the day. He went for this one and wasn’t going to leave it short but just missed the right edge. We’ll take pro-side misses long all day. Can’t leave it short on Moving Day.

TIGER ON THE DAY: Even through 2 (1 over for the tournament)

Hole 3 - Par 4: Flowering Peach

First round: Par Second round: Birdie

Tiger left this drive on the burner for a little too long as he overcooked his tee shot on the short par 4. He cleared the cluster of four penal bunkers guarding the left side of the short stuff but got a massive kick off a slope. For the second consecutive hole he’s amongst the patrons, and treeline depending should have a good look at the pin.

A good look indeed but like a kid who needs the bathroom this shot had too much juice and runs by the hole to leave a 16-footer for birdie. Man, nine times out of 10 that putt falls but he just didn’t get the edge and misses by the thinnest of margins. Easy, no-nonsense par. What’s that Ariana Grande song? Thank U, Next.

TIGER ON THE DAY: Even through 3 (1 over for the tournament)

Hole 4 - Par 3: Flowering Crab Apple

First round: Bogey Second round: Bogey

First par 3 of the day for Tiger and after watching Hatton hit the bunker he threw one high in the air and found the front left edge of the green. Wasn’t great but it’s yet another birdie chance. It’s still very early but I like what I see so far.

From just inside 40 feet, this putt won’t be easy. He’s got a slope to deal with right away that’s pretty drastic and could screw with his pace. Getting there wasn’t an issue, though, as He rolls this one around the left side of the hole to leave his longest par save of the day so far. With six feet to go this will certainly have his attention. How timid was this stroke, wow. Hardly tapped it and gave this speed way too much respect as he misses low and right. That’s a bad three-jack bogey that’ll leave a sour taste in his mouth.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 1 over through 4 (2 over for the tournament)

Hole 5 - Par 4: Magnolia

First round: Par Second round: Bogey

A pair of bunkers stacked down the left-hand side can cause some serious problems but Tiger avoids them with a bomb down the right side. That’s 319 yards of fun right there. He’s feeling some momentum here at Magnolia because that approach was his best of the day by far. His second landed soft and stuck to the green like Velcro just inside 20 feet for another birdie look. One of these has to fall, right?

(Insert Tiger roar here). That’s the first eruption from the crowd today as Tiger slings this looping, left-to-right breaking putt into the side of the hole for a bounce-back birdie to get his round back on track. Needed that after the unforced error on No. 4.

TIGER ON THE DAY: Even through 5 (1 over for the tournament)

Hole 6 - Par 3: Juniper

Tiger took his time with this tee shot to the par-3 6th green and was studying the wind like he was preparing for finals week. He flew this one through the wind and just went a bit too long as his ball rolled off the back edge onto the fringe. Should be able to putt from there and make par at worst. Solid effort.

Side note: Tyrrell Hatton is on the verge of losing his mind. Granted he idles at 70 percent ticked off and wakes up salty but he’s not thrilled with his performance thus far. Okay back to the Cat.

He does go with the flat stick but with so much fringe to cover he leaves his second effort shot of the cup. Might’ve gotten a little defensive there after seeing Hatton fly his putt past the cup and almost off the green. Jeepers creepers this was poor. Hit the right edge from close range and immediately puts a square on the scorecard after he erased his bad bogey two holes ago. Playing ping pong with his score right now and he’s losing to himself.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 1 over through 6 (2 over for the tournament)

Hole 7 - Par 4: Pampas

He’s laid back with 3 wood in the past on this hole but Tiger decided to let the big dog eat and slung a cut down the center of the fairway that just kicked out of the short stuff and into the first cut. Might even be on some pine straw near a tree.

With a front left pin and a bunker guarding the green Tiger had no shot to get close and simply advanced this down the fairway short and left of the putting surface. His wedge is, what’s the word I’m looking for … bad. Left it considerably short and in the bunker. With not much green to work with he splashes this one out every inch of 18 feet away and then left the bogey putt short. That’s a bad news bears double bogey that stemmed from a poor tee shot.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 3 over through 7 (4 over for the tournament)

Hole 8 - Par 5: Yellow Jasmine

First round: Birdie Second round: Birdie

Sing it with me folks: The wheels on the round are coming off. Coming off. Coming off.

Tiger’s drive goes full NASCAR and turns left into the cluster of trees just off the fairway. He had to take an awkward stance and simply punch this back into the fairway. The pin is in one of the easier locations of the week so he might be able to create some magic but it’s not gonna be a simple task from 244 yards that’s for sure. One arm follow through with the swing and he HATES this. For good reason. It’s well short and right of the green. As the kids say, the struggle is real for Tiger right now.

Tried to land his pitch on the edge of the green and let it trickle down a slope towards the cup but missed his landing area by a few yards and will now have outside of 20 feet just to save par on one of the easiest holes on the golf course. Doesn’t take much time with this putt and rolls it low and left past the cup. He’s taking some deep breaths to either settle himself down or deal with some discomfort. He’s been moving fine all day, just in the wrong direction on the leaderboard.

He took more time over his four-foot bogey putt than he did his par putt. Misses right and that’s his first-ever double bogey on the easy 8th. Back-to-back doubles. Zoinks.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 5 over through 8 (6 over for the tournament)

Hole 9 - Par 4: Carolina Cherry

Whatever control Tiger had in the first round, it’s gone now. Seems like his body may be giving out on him and the fatigue has set in. Loses this one again to the right, though not nearly as far offline as some other miscues off the tee today. It’s a beautiful day here at Augusta National so Tiger went to the beach with his approach at No. 9. From the bunker he splashed out to just inside 10 feet and watched as his putt to save par and stop the bleeding just misses the cup. Another timid effort. Another bogey. Might be the worst front nine I’ve ever seen him play.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 6 over through 9 (7 over for the tournament)

Thoughts at the turn

Tiger hit the eject button and hit the canopy on the way out of the cockpit on that first nine. He makes the turn in 42, his highest-ever score in the opening nine holes at the Masters. He’s moving okay, but you can tell his body is starting to give out on him. He’s not in control of his shots and is spraying the ball all over Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie’s green earth.

He’s too proud to WD unless he absolutely can’t go, so we might have to continue to watch this plane crash for nine more holes. If the Cat has any magic left in that hat, he needs to pull it out. Yesterday.

Hole 10 - Par 4: Camellia

Tiger’s a little hot under the collar and I think he took it out on this drive. It’s a 313-yard bomb down the right side of the short grass to set up a perfect angle to the green. Been a few holes since he’s done that. From 202 yards out he hits a tasty approach to just outside 10 feet to set up a putt for something called a birdie? Apparently it’s your score if you make it in the hole in fewer strokes than par.

Anways, he misses the birdie putt (again) and settles for par. Off to Amen Corner we go!

TIGER ON THE DAY: 6 over through 10 (7 over for the tournament)

Hole 11 - Par 4: White Dogwood

Say your prayers, welcome to Amen Corner.

Another solid tee shot distance wise that leaks a bit more to the right than he would’ve liked. With trees guarding his path to the right pin location Tiger overcooks this cut and it runs off the slope of the green to leave a testy chip up onto the putting surface. Oooh this was classy. A bump-and-run into the hill to kill the spin and speed is played to perfection (chef’s kiss) and rolls short of the hole to set up a great chance to get up and down from inside six feet. Smooth stroke and that’s back-to-back pars for Tiger.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 6 over through 11 (7 over for the tournament)

Hole 12 - Par 3: Golden Bell

Tiger put his tee shot on No. 12 in the flower bed on Thursday and on Friday watched it kick off the mulch and into the first cut behind the green. Today he had a great line to the left pin but watches as his ball kicks off into the grass off the back edge. Another iffy chip checks up six feet short and he knew the putt wasn’t going in as soon as he hit it. Walked after it and tapped in for bogey immediately. Moving on.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 7 over through 12 (8 over for the tournament)

Hole 13 - Par 4: Azalea

Tiger hit a great tee ball here down the right side of the fairway that kicked into the first cut grass, but he’s opened up a great angle to the green if he’s feeling frisky. Nope, lays this one up, probably a smart play, to about 60 yards. From there he hit a solid wedge that slammed on the breaks inside 10 feet to set up a much-needed birdie putt just to get his mind right. Chirp-chirp! Slowly trickles the putt into the hole and walks away with a brief smile on what will be a largely forgettable round.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 6 over through 13 (7 over for the tournament)

Hole 14 - Par 4: Chinese Fir

PIPED this drive down the right side but there’s little accuracy from the big stick today. He’s in the pine straw once again and punches this one through a tight window trying to get to the green but it doesn’t make it and gets caught up in the grass just outside of the cluster of trees. His pitch from there was average at best and runs up on a slope but doesn’t come back. That’ll leave 15 feet for par but his line isn’t far enough right as his ball broke hard to the left. Yet another bogey. He can’t wait to get off this course.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 7 over through 14 (8 over for the tournament)

Hole 15 - Par 5: Firethorn

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Tiger lost a drive to the right. He’s among the patrons once again and from there hit a big cut around the pines that checked up short of the pond guarding the green. His third went long off the back edge and his chip from there onto the green didn’t get reach its destination and got stuck on the edge of the fringe. Get ready to write another square on the scorecard. He’s able to get up and down for his bogey, not much more to say, really.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 8 over through 15 (9 over for the tournament)

Hole 16 - Par 3: Redbud

Bad body language from Tiger as his tee shot finds the green, just 50-plus feet away from the right pin. What on earth did he see here? Tiger aimed way left and blitzed this one past the hole, so far offline that it nearly ran off the putting surface. This thing wasn’t even close. Two putts from there and walks off with, you guessed it, bogey.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 9 over through 16 (10 over for the tournament)

Hole 17 - Par 4: Nandina

A smooth swing here from Tiger sees his ball find the left first cut just off the fairway, one of his better-looking swings off the tee on this second nine. He punched an approach down the fairway short and right of the green, which wasn’t bad considering he didn’t have much of a look at the pin (or green for that matter). He loves chipping to six feet then missing the putt for par to tap in for bogey, because this is the fourth or fifth time he’s done it so far this week. He came in with little to no tournament reps, and if you pair that with an ailing body, you’re bound to have rounds like this. Seventeen down, one to go.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 10 over through 17 (11 over for the tournament)

Hole 18 - Par 4: Holly

First round: Bogey Second round: Par

Tiger and Tyrrell hit nearly identical tee shots up the 18th fairway and while they waited for the green to clear, Tiger was stretching his back for his final few shots. It’s not the leg that’s bothering him today that’s for certain. With a back right pin, Tiger carved a cut onto the front edge but was a good club short. It’s a birdie putt to end the day, but he’s got a big ridge to cover and a long way to go. Scared the hole with the birdie putt but ran it by on the pro side and tapped in for par to put to bed his worst-ever round at Augusta National.

TIGER ON THE DAY: 10-over 82 (11 over for the tournament).

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