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The PGA Tour takes us to Southern California this week for the Genesis Invitational host Tiger Woods set to make his first PGA tour start of the year begin his 2023 season with the Genesis Invitational finish T45 he’s never won at Riviera Tiger’s made 15 starts at the Genesis Invitational his
Most starts at a PGA Tour event without a win he’s won 82 times on tour tied with Sam sne for most all time and here’s what tiger had to say when asked what would make this week at Riviera a success a nice W would be nice right um
I haven’t uh I had ever won this event so i’ I’ve played in this event since what since ’92 and the years I’ve played I’ve still never have won this event so hopefully that U I can figure something out and um get myself in there in
Contention and um you know maybe get a w at the end end of the week as far as the love the love I still love competing I love playing I love being a part of the game of golf um this is the game of of a lifetime and I don’t
Ever want to stop playing um I love be able to compete I love be able to enjoy different conversations from across time and uh for instance like today be able to play with two great athletes um the cross pollination that happens with other sports and with this this game i’
Love I love that I love having and I don’t ever want to to lose that love to see tiger back got a new logo it’s interesting curious to see what people think about it this week here’s a look at who’s in tigers’s group for Thursday and Friday alongside his good friend
Justin Thomas and Gary Woodland who’s made a Miraculous Journey back from brain surgery what a story for Gary Woodland to be back on tour the group round one tea time set for 12:25 eastern time on Thursday and let’s set it up welcome in CBS Sports HQ golf analyst Kyle Porter and
Doug Bell you heard tiger say a nice W would make this week it’s a success at Riviera Kyle how would you define a successful week for Tiger I think it’s the same as last year and that’s that’s making the cut at at Riv you know it’s interesting because this year Doug it’s
It’s such a smaller field right we’re down to to 70 players but they’re still a cut so you still have to be inside that top 50 or within 10 going into the weekend and I think for Tiger to do to do that after not having played in in
Such a long time um it’s unrealistic for him to get into to contention he’s he’s always going to say I’m trying to get the win I’m out here to win etc etc but to me after not having played in such a long time just playing four rounds ahead
Of the Masters ahead of maybe he plays The Players Championship or Bay Hill or something like that that’s a huge Victory I think for Tiger Woods at at Genesis this weekend and guys it was so much fun for me to actually walk every hole with tiger today during the proam he’s
Playing with Josh Allen at the Buffalo Bills and Aaron Hicks now the Anaheim Angels the catcher who’s married to cheyen Woods Tiger’s niece and she was pushing the baby around uh there was only like a few hundred people following him and as the day went on it was you
Could get very close watch his swing he’s hitting it a long way he’s a big strong guy uh he’s hitting a lot of greens he looks good he does walk with a noticeable limp uh there’s not a lot of flexibility anymore in that 48-year old
Body so he does generate a lot of power because he spends a lot of time in the weight room but but Kyle’s right uh after the linky layoff to think that tiger can come out and compete and win against the best in the world and Riviera one of the best golf courses in
The world a place that he’s never won before uh would be highly improbable I do believe he’ll make the cut there’s only 70 players 50 and ties make the cut so let’s give him credit he’ll play into the weekend but to think the tiger will be anywhere close to that first page of
The leaderboard on Sunday final nine holes it’s it’s not going to happen all right well you know what is going to happen he’s got a new look this week he announced his partnership with Taylor Made revealed his new brand and Logo Sunday red Kyle you know I love golf
Fashion this is going to take a while to get used to what do you think of this new look uh I’m out I saw it described as uh the skeleton of the Slinger logo which I think is is is pretty on point uh listen like there naming things braining things it’s
It’s extremely difficult I I I think you should you should give some some slack and have some Grace there but I there’s just so many different things you could have done with this Hakeem you know why not the the tiger head remember the Frank logo now I I don’t know maybe
That’s tied up in in Nike stuff or whatever but there’s so many different ways you can go with a tiger like like the physical animal and the direction that they went it just and then the three-word thing I’m I’m just I don’t know it left me feeling a little bit
Cold about uh about what could have been uh versus what they actually produced yeah Doug I don’t love it either I’m going to be honest it’s it’s not a great look and not from one of the alltime greats and we’re not talking about alltime greats in golf I’m talking about
Alltime greats in sports history we we got to have a better logo for Tiger Woods well on Monday at the tailor made presentation I was here guys uh he said everybody in South Florida wears cashmere hoodies he said that’s just do do they I don’t and it’s very expensive
Those casir hoodies but obviously if Tiger’s pushing it I think a lot of people will buy it but yeah the logo it leaves a little something let’s put it this way we have to get used to it right yeah I don’t mind wearing a hoodie on
The course I mean you know it’s it’s springtime in in Connecticut it’s a little chilly like give me a hoodie but I’m I’m probably not going to bust out a Casmir maybe that just makes me poverty but uh yeah I’m not going to bust out the the cashmere uh hoodie but yeah I
Feel like we could have done a little bit better with that logo whatever Rory Mak still a Nike guy he’s still under contract with Nike until 2027 this week looking to bounce back after a t66 at Pebble Beach one bad thing led to another including a two- shot penalty
For an improper drop that week Kyle how does Riviera set up for Rory well I think it sets up well we might see Rory in some in some cashmir hoodies this week by the way Doug I think I think tiger might have meant the people that he hangs out with in South
Florida W Casher I don’t I don’t think that was everybody Rory plays very well everywhere hem right there there’s not a golf course that uh that that doesn’t fit him I I was actually surprised at how poorly he played at Pebble it was the approach play that got him you
Mentioned you know you get a you get a penalty on an approach shot that on the drop there that’s going to really hurt your your your numbers your statistics for the week but even other than that he didn’t hit it that well and and that’s um unusual because he usually hits it
Well uh but also because he’s been hitting it well recently he woned Dubai in January uh he came into uh 2024 playing some you know maybe not his best golf but still better than most players in the world I would say Rory’s played well at Riviera before it’s going to be
All about those approach shots though it’s it’s obviously Riv is a is a second shot golf course he’s going to put himself into a position off the T where not a lot of guys are and so he’ll have some wedges in his hands that um you know not everybody in the Field’s going
To now so can he take advantage of those can he um hit it tight and and give himself enough looks at 8 10 from 8 10 12T for birdie I think that um that’s going to be really the thing to watch out for It’s usually the thing to watch
Out for but I think especially so at a place like Riviera yeah guys I spoke to Rory uh he and Harry Diamond his long time C good buddy um he’s in good spirits he always is took last week off went home work on the game spent time with the family he
Has forgotten what happened at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro uh you can rest assured of that and I think he comes in this week refreshed a golf course that as Kyle mentioned it sets up perfectly for a guy who hits it long and straight and then hits those
Beautiful high altitude iron shots it’s just a matter of hitting a few putts and I think Rory could very well uh chalk up a early win he usually plays better later in the PJ tour season when things warm up we’ll see what happens but this golf course Riviera sets up perfectly
For Rory mooy and including Rory 23 of the top 25 players in the official World Golf Ranking are in the field Rory ranked second in the world fand listing him with his second best odds to win the Genesis behind world number one Scotty sheffler 2024 men as you know has been
The year of the long shot each of the first six winners on tour this year has been 100 to one or longer including Nick Taylor last week in Phoenix Doug who’s a long shot you like this week in Southern California yeah that list uh is still
Amazing uh I mean those guys were not on the radar screen maybe Nick Taylor uh maybe Windam Clark but the other guys were certainly not uh a guy following and again following your pattern Adam shank uh last I looked he was 125 to one he knocked on the door twice last season
On the PGA tour almost won twice lost in a couple he lost in the playoff uh they’re a colonial and then at valpar we were t-shot in the 72nd hole cost him but Adam shank is on the verge guys uh Purdue has a great college basketball
Team and they may have a great PGA Tour player at the end of this season I I think he is playing the best golf of his life right now and it could happen he could knock back a very impressive field at this signature of the bed Adam shank
Yeah I don’t know what qualifies as a long shot anymore hakee but I’m going with with Cam young at 35 to1 he’d be by far the shortest odds of any winner on the PGA tour this year but I think in this field you can still consider him a
Long shot when you’ve got the favorites at 6 and a half seven 8 to1 something like that cam Young’s been um he’s been awesome uh at Riviera and he’s been awesome at times over the last year he’s kind of it’s It’s been weird though because he’ll have moments where he’ll
Pop up and like he had two top 10 in major championships last year I was looking at that today Doug I completely forgot about that he finished in the top 10 at the open and the top 10 at the Masters and he was kind of quiet for
Most of the rest of the year so he was really up and down in 2023 but I actually kind of like that going into Riv because I’m I’m not looking for you know consistency finishing tied for third tied for fourth I’m just looking for a win this week right and he played
Very well at Phoenix last week finish in the top 10 there like I said he’s been T20 and t7 at Riviera in the two times that he’s played it he’s another guy that’s going to be in some spots with Rory that not a lot of guys in this
Field are going to be in uh he’s just got to take advantage of the ledges and and get up and down from you know 70 yards 80 yards make enough birdies and uh and put himself up there so I’m excited about what he could do at 35 to1
Grayson Murray the longest long shot to win this year at 400 to1 winning the Sony Open and you might want to stick with your long shot considering the way the year has gone but always good to have a ticket with a favorite as well Kyle who’s a big name you like to win
The Genesis Invitational well I’m bravely going with the number one player in the world and that’s Scotty Sheffer yeah I’m I’m really putting myself out there uh Scotty was awesome last week at Phoenix he’s always awesome I mean his last 27 starts Hakeem on the PG tour uh he’s got 26 finishes inside
The top 25 I mean he just it’s all he does is finish inside the top 25 and 24 of those 24 of 27 finishes are inside the top 12 which is just I mean that doesn’t happen and it just keeps happening with him he doesn’t miss Cuts
He doesn’t uh he doesn’t really finish outside the top 15 in in uh in any of these events he’s the he’s been the best driver in the world over the last 12 months he’s been the best iron player in the world over the last 12 months and
And he’s been the fifth best um player in terms of Strokes gain around the greens so you put all those together uh he obviously hasn’t putted well which is why he hasn’t won more than more than he has but man he’s just consistently inside the top five top 10 at these
Events uh this is a big boy event $4 million first prize and I think Scotty shuffler gets it done yeah it’s an Allstar cast guys there no doubt about it you know Xander scha was playing in the proam group right in front of tigers so in an effort
To stay ahead of the crowd I was always watching Xander hit up to the green or either putting and he walked off one green he said you must be waiting for Tiger right and and we had a nice chuckle I said no you’re my guy for CVS
Um 38 Executive Cuts made I mean think about that consistency took last week off felt that he needed to just relax and catch his breath uh three top 10 to start 2024 amazingly didn’t record a w last year but this guy’s really good uh I I know Kyle’s written a lot about Scotty
Sheffer and his prowess with the irons and he’s best in the world bander Schley is right up there near Scotty sheffler and again like Rory and these other All-Star guys this golf course sets up perfectly for the X-Man and and I like him and and following him today it just
Made me feel better about my pick Xander shley yeah you love the X-Men Doug loves him some Xander Schley Kyle loves him some Scotty sheffler I love Tiger Woods it’s unlikely he wins but hey if you want to put a ticket down a little sprinkle He’s listed at 170 to1 to win
The Genesis Doug Kyle appreciate it be talking to you all week long here on CBS Sports HQ and you can watch third and fourth round coverage of the Genesis Invitational on CBS and streaming live on Paramount plus coverage begins Saturday and Sunday 3 eastern time we’ll have post round analysis right here on
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