Woods doesn't buy the twin mantras of patience and caution that until now have been assumed at Opens. You're not supposed to attack a U.S. Open course. You take what the defense gives you. Unless you're Woods, in which case you take what you want. Conventional Open strategy doesn't apply.
Tiger just lets it rip.
Standing on the 18th tee Saturday morning, finishing his delayed second round and lording over a seven-shot lead, Woods hit his driver as hard as he could. This was not the Open play. But Woods is not an Open player. He hasn't tempered his fearlessness to account for the Open's rough or this Open's harder, faster greens. He's still playing like he's at Normandy in June 1944.