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The voices echoed across the dwindling reaches of St. Andrews, the accents different but the sentiments the same as in America: “COME ON TOY-GAH!” As the sun set on a long, slow day in Scotland, Tiger Woods plodded his way through the last few holes of the Old Course, frustration evident on his face, in his shoulders, in his slow walk. He ended the day at 6-over, a rugged 78 that left him buried near the bottom of the leaderboard. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go for Woods, not how he… Source link

With the 150th British Open just five days away, Tiger Woods got in a full 18-hole practice round on Sunday at St. Andrews. It’s not something he has previously done ahead of major tournaments since his return to the PGA Tour. Woods played just nine-hole practice rounds in the lead-up to both the Masters and PGA Championship earlier this year because of the physical limitations he is still experiencing in the aftermath of the February 2021 car wreck that nearly cost him his right leg. Those… Source link

Greg Norman, the public face of the breakaway LIV Golf series, says the executives and agents who currently run golf “are conspiring against LIV to protect an antiquated system that prevents golfers from realizing their own power and worth amid a global movement of athlete empowerment.” In a story by the Washington Post titled, “The Shark is on the attack again,” Norman also criticized Rory McIlroy and others, suggesting they’ve been “brainwashed” against the LIV movement…. Source link

You don’t hear much applause at golf tournaments anymore. “The art of clapping is gone,” Tiger Woods said a couple years back. “Everyone’s holding a cell phone.” Oh sure, you’ll still hear plenty of “woo” and “mashed potato” and “Tiger Tiger Woods y’all” and, of course, “get in the hole.” (“Baba Booey” has faded as Howard Stern’s cultural footprint has diminished. “Brooksy” mostly vanished when Koepka and DeChambeau squashed their beef. And “dilly dilly” died the lonely, unmourned… Source link

Tiger Woods withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship on Saturday night. This is not a surprise. The surprise is that he was in the field. The surprise is that he has fought his way back from another would-be career-ending catastrophe. The surprise is that anyone, at this point, is still surprised by Tiger Woods. The 2022 PGA Championship will forever have a “WD” next to Woods’ name. That doesn’t begin to cover the significance of the week. Yes, he stumbled to a +12 finish Saturday after a… Source link

    After three days in which his score and his pain grew progressively worse, Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the PGA Championship. Woods began the tournament Thursday with an early charge that put him within a stroke of the lead. That hot streak soon faded. Friday was a battle just to make the cut, and Saturday was a debacle — a nine-over round that left Woods +12 for the week and in obvious pain. “I didn’t do anything right,” Woods said after the round. “I didn’t hit many good shots…. Source link

There are limits to Tiger Woods’ ability to work miracles. Somewhere. There have to be, right? Woods won’t win the PGA Championship. He might not ever win a tournament again. But he’s staying in the fight long after so many others would have quit. Fifteen months after a devastating car wreck that nearly cost him his leg, six weeks after his return to competitive golf at Augusta, one day after a round at the PGA Championship that started hot but stalled late, Woods fought through one of the… Source link

There was a moment, a brief moment, when Tiger Woods was one stroke off the lead in a major in 2022. It didn’t last. Through his first five holes Thursday morning in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, Woods was 2-under par and looking strong and confident, not at all like he was still recovering from a February 2021 car wreck. Then the drives started drifting, the approaches started fluttering and the putts stopped falling, and Woods plummeted down the leaderboard to end the day at +4 in… Source link

If you’d told a golf fan in 2002 — back when Tiger Woods was collecting majors by the armload, and Phil Mickelson was the lovable major-less loser — that those two would still be the most popular players on the planet in 20 years, it probably wouldn’t have come as a total shock. (That 2002 fan would have reason to worry about the state of a game that hadn’t produced anyone to eclipse Tiger and Phil, but that’s a different story.) Woods and Mickelson possess a rare combination of… Source link

AUGUSTA, Ga. — For everything he accomplished this week at Augusta National Golf Club in his return to competitive golf, Tiger Woods will be disappointed in his result at the 86th Masters. For how well he hit his driver in Sunday’s final round, the rest of his game was rather suspect as the five-time winner of the green jacket signed for a second consecutive 6-over 78 to tie his worst-ever finish at the Masters and finish the tournament at 13-over and walk off the course at T-47 shortly… Source link