Tiger Woods looked — and sounded — like his old self at the British Open on Thursday, when he snapped at the shutterbugs clicking away during his windup.
“Jesus Christ!” Woods yelled in the direction of the gallery on the 18th hole, stepping away from a shot in the fairway en route to an opening-round score of 69.
Then, in profound exasperation, he barked: “Guys…”
“People were taking a lot of pictures and we had it all day long today, there were a lot of cameras out there,” Woods told reporters afterwards. “We were backing out of shots and a lot of people moving around, it was tough.
“Unfortunately, people don’t just put there phones on silent or some of the professional guys [photographers] were getting on their trigger a little early.”
Woods’ outburst was probably tame, though, in comparison to what this course marshal uttered after taking an errant, bounding Woods tee shot straight to the dome.