Tiger: "I felt tightness in my left Achilles"

Jimmy Roberts of NBC gets a statement through Tiger spokesman Glenn Greenspan, saying "I felt tightness in my left Achilles" and "in the past I would have continued playing." Tiger said he would be "evaluated sometime early next week."

Update on 2012-03-12 00:04 by Geoff

**Steve Elling with more details on how it went down. I'm noticing that Tiger did not stop by the fitness trailer, which I thought was mandatory after a WD due to injury, not to mention odd to not want to seek immediate treatment. But maybe not?

Woods, 36, changed his golf spikes at the turn for reasons that remain unclear, then began flexing his left knee and limping visibly after hitting his second shot on the 10th hole into the water, which viewers of the European feed noticed immediately. 

After a bogey on the 10th, he dropped to T27. He parred the 11th hole from a greenside bunker, then teed off on the 12th with a driver and crushed a shot 321 yards down the middle of the fairway.

Speaking of 3-2-1, nobody knew the withdrawalcountdown had started. He was 3 over for the day at the time and well off the pace at 6 under overall when he jumped into a golf cart and was taken straight to his black Mercedes sedan in a nearby car park. He drove off with caddie Joe LaCava, moments after a paramedic team from the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue team cruised up to see if he required treatment.

"Rebounding Casey aces Doral's 15th hole as confusion, comedy ensue"

Steve Elling with the fun story of Paul Casey's Doral 15th hole ace, which was preceded by an agreement with caddie Craig Connelly to split the prize. Only, the car only goes to the ace on 13, even though one is parked right behind the 15th tee.

Connelly practically did a Yogi Berra leap into his boss' arms and danced in the tee box, as playing partner Kyle Stanley and caddie Brett Waldman joined in the celebration. Casey, on the other hand, deadpanned that he was a little bit bummed because he knew he'd have to share it with his looper.

"I don't think I've ever not wanted a ball to go in the hole," Casey laughed. "I never enjoyed not winning a car so much."

2012 WGC Cadillac Open Comment Thread

All eyes are on Bubba, unless of course The Donald crashes the trophy ceremony. Wynn Sports Book puts the odds on that at 6-5. Your thoughts on the final day at Doral...

"I just think it's a really poor par 3. Needs changing somehow."

Safe to say Lee Westwood is all for the forthcoming remodel of the TPC Blue Monster at Doral. From Tuesday's pre-WGC press conference:

Q.  I'd like to talk to you about the par 3s on the back nine.  13 is the longest par 3 on the course.  How do you approach that?  Do you just try to escape from that?

LEE WESTWOOD:  Yeah, I think the 13th on this course is probably one of the worst par 3s I've ever played I think.  No, seriously.  I just think it's a really poor par 3.  Needs changing somehow.  I think it's a long par 3.  The back of the green slopes away.

So it's one of them you try and land it short on the fringe; if it's downwind in bermuda rough, it either stops dead or it bounces forward and it runs off the back.  I think they are on about changing that one, so that would definitely agree with me.  So you just try to play it and get out of there with a three.  I think if you offered most people a three there every day this week, they would take it.

The 15th is a really nice par 3.  Unfortunately it's been vandalized this week.  But it's a nice, mid‑range par 3, sort of 7‑, 8‑iron, 6, I suppose if it turns into the wind.  Traps at front and the back.  Quite a narrow green at front and back, so your distance control has to be good.

And I suppose you've got to be fairly accurate, as well.  They took the flag away on the right there, or on the left, so you want to be in that section of the green if at all possible.

Q.  What have they done to the 15th?  How have they vandalized?

LEE WESTWOOD:  I think it's had petrol poured on it.  Some sad people about, aren't there.