Woods kicked to curb, then kicked around

MARANA, Ariz. -- The last time he played, Tiger Woods committed an act on television that made some folks want to cover their eyes.
This time, sensitive types could well have covered their ears.
Moments after he lost a first-round match for only the second time in 10 trips to the Accenture Match Play Championship, Woods uttered a vulgarity to describe both his game and state of mind.
Asked where he was in the yearlong process of rebuilding his sliding game, Woods looked Golf Channel/NBC reporter Roger Maltbie in the eye and said, "Pissed. That's where I'm at right now."
After a back-and-forth fight with Thomas Bjorn, Woods made a clutch 8-footer on the 18th hole to extend the match, then shoved his 3-wood tee shot on the first extra hole into the desert, where his next shot failed to extricate the ball from a thorny bush. Woods eventually conceded the match on the green.
"I was trying to hit a ball in play," he said. "The fairway is what, 200 yards wide? That's very disappointing."
The three-time Accenture champion lost in the first round only once before, to Peter O'Malley, in 2002.
"I had the momentum going to the 19th hole and I blew it," Woods said dejectedly.
Woods hadn't played in the event since 2009, when he was making his first start after having reconstructive knee surgery. He was bounced in the second round by Tim Clark. Bjorn confirmed the obvious, admitting it wasn't particularly pretty on either front.
"You didn't know who was going to hit a bad shot next," the Dane said.
We used to always assume it would be the other guy. Not anymore.
When the subject of his next appearance was raised and whether he might add another tournament -- Woods has played nine competitive rounds this year and doesn't seem to building through a breakthrough moment -- he was his typically evasive self.
"I'm not in a good mood for that right now," he said.
Barring any surprise changes in his schedule, Woods is expected to play at Doral and Bay Hill before making the trip to Augusta. He hasn't won in 16 months on the PGA Tour, the longest skein of his career.
Three weeks ago in Dubai, Woods spat on a putting green in frustration, drawing a fine and public rebuke from the European Tour for his behavior and an earful from a network analyst covering the event.
His former coach, Hank Haney, who took plenty of heat over his former client's driving accuracy over the years, weighed in on Woods via his Twitter account.
"For all the talk of Tiger's poor driving the last 6 years, I have never seen him drive it out of play with a match or tournament on the line," Haney wrote.
That wasn't the only slap of the day, either. Earlier, while broadly discussing the rise of young stars over the past two years, 21-year-old Rory McIlroy pondered a question about Woods, Phil Mickelson and the older American players near the top of the world rankings. Even after pausing for several moments to consider his words, McIlroy underscored the current player mindset as it relates to the once-invincible Woods.
"I mean, I don't think Tiger and Phil have gotten any ...," McIlroy said, pausing. "I don't think Phil has gotten any worse. I mean, Tiger isn't as dominant as he used to be, and Phil, I mean Phil won the Masters last year."
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