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Few might have anticipated a classic Tiger Woods performance at The Open this week, but expectations were unrelenting as far as the legend's official website was concerned.

Woods—a three-time Open champion and one of only a few stars to win multiple titles at St. Andrews— carded a first-round 78 after he was seen hobbling around the Old Course at times. His comeback (and potential last outing at this venue) was emotional for numerous reasons, not least because it came almost 18 months after his leg was severely injured in a life-threatening car crash.

But those factors didn't prevent golf writer Dan Rapaport from slamming Woods' Thursday performance as "barely respectable" in a report published on the 15-time major-winner's official website. The journalist pointed out Woods had the 150th Open "circled on his calendar since before he could walk again," perhaps proffered as a ploy to help counter-balance the incoming criticism.

"It started promisingly enough, with Woods flushing a long iron into the center of the expansive first fairway—only for his ball to rest in a fresh, sandy divot," began Rapaport's dissection of Woods' opening round. "Not five minutes later,