POTOMAC, Md. – The guy who has been fiddling with putters because he wasn’t happy with the results finally had his share of putts go in.
If only Tiger Woods could have looked behind him, he might have seen J.J. Spaun match his best score of the year with a 7-under-par 63 to share the lead with Andrew Landry in the Quicken Loans National.
Spaun, who has gone back and forth with putters four times in his past six tournaments, quietly went about his business Thursday. Most of the attention was on the group ahead of him, where Woods was using a mallet-style putter to help him shake out of a slump.
A new putter gave the 14-time major champion a better feel but the same middling results. He had six birdie chances from 10 feet or closer and made two of them to offset a double bogey early in his round, and he had to settle for a 70.
“I shot about the score I should have shot today,” Woods said.