Tiger growls over ragged first round

He slammed clubs and cursed his way to 4-over par, then left without speaking.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- One streak will likely continue. Another could come to an end.
Neither bodes well for Tiger Woods.
His 4-over 74 in Thursday's opening round of the PGA Championship did more than just damage Woods' chances of breaking his winless streak in major championships -- which now stands at five.
It also left him in danger of missing the cut -- something that hasn't happened in 108 consecutive tournaments.
Undesirable scenario
Woods will know exactly what is in front of him today, thanks to a late tee time he probably would rather not have. By then, Oak Hill will be drying out even more and the greens will be both firmer and faster.
The course, though, looked tough enough for Woods in his first round, where the wayward tee shots that plagued him all year cost him once again.
Woods had hoped to salvage one major championship in a year of major disappointments. Now it looks like he will be 0-for-6.
What Woods thought about all this wasn't known, because he stormed from the course in anger after a long and frustrating day.
He did, however, tell a PGA official that "tomorrow's another day."
Woods had better hope it's a better day than Thursday, when he tossed clubs, cursed shots and generally went about his business with a perpetual scowl.
It's hard to be happy, though, when only five of your 14 tee shots escape the rough. Woods kept hacking out of the thick stuff with wedges, just trying to advance the ball, and often leaving himself the problem of getting up-and-down from 100 yards or so for par.
Angered Woods
On the seventh hole, the 16th of the day for Woods, he had had enough. All day long, he was missing fairways with his tee shots and now he couldn't hit the green with a wedge in his hands.
Woods tossed the club at his bag and walked toward a nearby bridge, cursing loudly all the way. The frustrations of a year's worth of mangled majors seemed ready to erupt all at once.
On the next hole, he slammed his 3-wood into the ground in anger after hitting it into the gnarly Oak Hill rough one more time. And just for good measure, he finished the round by missing a 2-footer.
Who could have imagined when Woods was completing his Grand Slam in 2001 and then won the first two majors last year that he would be now be faltering? But consider this statistic: When Woods won three of the four majors in 2000 he was a combined 53-under-par in the four events. This year he's 10-over-par -- and still has three rounds to go in the PGA Championship. That's assuming he makes it that far.
As bad as it was for Woods, it could have been worse. Woods was actually the best player in a threesome that included a 75 by 2001 PGA champion David Toms and an 82 by defending champion Rich Beem.
If it weren't for Woods' putter, he might have joined Beem. In a stretch of four holes, he made putts from 6, 10, 10 and 20 feet to save pars. For the day, he took only 27 putts.
The 74 wasn't much condolence, though. Woods has now failed to break 70 in the first round of his last six majors, a streak that coincides with his major losing streak.
Perhaps more ominously, Woods has never won a tournament where he shot worse than par in the opening round.