Tiger Woods skipped the bodily grind of taking part in final month's U.S. Open as a result of he didn't wish to threat his probabilities of taking part in in subsequent week's one hundred and fiftieth Open Championship at St. Andrews.
Chatting with reporters on Tuesday on the JP McManus Professional-Am at Eire's Adare Manor Golf Membership, Woods stated that issues along with his surgically repaired proper leg stored him out of the June 16-19 main at Brookline, Mass.
"The plan was to play the U.S. Open, however bodily I used to be not in a position to do this," he stated. "There is no approach bodily I might have finished that. I had some points with my leg and it might have put this match in jeopardy, and so there is not any motive to do this."
Woods, 46, has three wins at The Open amongst his 15 main championships, together with victories on the Outdated Course at St. Andrews in Scotland in 2000 and 2005.
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"It is a fairly historic Open that we're going to be taking part in," Woods stated Tuesday. "I am fortunate sufficient to be a part of the previous champions which have received there, and wish to play there once more, and I do not know when they're ever going to return whereas I am nonetheless in a position to play at a excessive stage. I need to have the ability to give it at the least yet one more run at a excessive stage."
Woods has not performed in an official occasion for the reason that PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Could. He withdrew from that match after carding a 9-over 79 within the third spherical.
Since recovering from a single-car rollover accident close to Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 2021, Woods has performed in simply two official tournaments. He positioned forty seventh on the Masters in April.
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Woods, who carded a 5-over 77 within the first spherical of the 36-hole pro-am Monday, stated he has good days and "some very troublesome days ... shifting off the sofa is a hell of a process, and that is simply the best way it's."
The 82-time PGA Tour winner and former World No. 1 admitted he does not know the way for much longer he'll be capable to play aggressive golf.
"I do not know. I actually do not," Woods stated. "Should you requested me final yr whether or not I might play golf once more, all of my surgeons would have stated no. However right here I'm taking part in two main championships this yr. I'll at all times be capable to play golf, whether or not it is this leg or another person's leg or false leg or completely different physique items which have been positioned or fused. I am going to at all times be capable to play. Now in case you say play at a championship stage, effectively, that window is unquestionably not so long as I would really like it to be."
