Tiger Woods will leave out the minimize on the 152nd Open Championship after following his opening 79 with a 6-over-par 77 on Friday at Royal Troon in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
At 14 over par, Woods stood a hundred and fiftieth of 154 golfers as the second one spherical used to be in growth.
“I have at all times cherished enjoying main championships. I simply want I used to be extra bodily sharp entering the majors,” Woods mentioned after his spherical. “Clearly it assessments you mentally, bodily, emotionally, and I simply wasn’t as sharp as I had to be.”
The spherical concluded a disappointing season for the 48-year-old. He made his first get started of the season in February on the Genesis Invitational, his basis’s match, however needed to withdraw early in his 2d spherical because of sickness.
Woods made the minimize on the Masters — for a record-breaking twenty fourth directly get started — however completed final a few of the 60 golfers who performed the weekend. Then got here neglected cuts on the PGA Championship, U.S. Open and The Open, the place he by no means shot a spherical of par or higher.
“I would love to have performed extra, however I simply sought after to make certain that I used to be in a position to play the key championships this yr,” Woods mentioned. “I were given a large number of day off to get well, to be higher bodily, which has been the case all yr.
“I have gotten higher, despite the fact that my effects truly have not proven it, however bodily I have gotten higher, which is excellent. I simply wish to stay progressing like that after which in the end get started enjoying extra competitively and get started coming into more or less the aggressive float once more.”
Requested if he would compete at subsequent yr’s Open at Royal Portrush, Woods mentioned, “Certainly.”
Any hopes of Woods taking pictures low and getting just about the projected minimize line of four over had been shot down when he double-bogeyed the second one hollow. He chipped his 3rd shot to the a long way facet of the fairway, chipped once more and neglected a 4-footer for bogey.
“I made a double there at 2 correct out of the hopper after I had to cross the opposite direction,” Woods mentioned. “Simply used to be combating it just about all day. I by no means truly hit it shut sufficient to make birdies and as a result made a large number of bogeys.”
He adopted a bogey on the par-3 5th with a right-to-left, 22-foot birdie putt on the par-5 6th. However that became out to be his best birdie of the spherical. Bogeys got here at Nos. 9, 12, 14 and 17 prior to he two-putted for par on the 18th.
Woods neglected 22 of 36 vegetables in law around the two rounds. He went 7 over par at the 4 par-3 holes and seven over at the par-4s.
Woods mentioned he’ll now not play a match till his standard exhibition time table in December, the Hero Global Problem (additionally hosted via Woods) and the PNC Championship, a circle of relatives exhibition he performs along with his son Charlie.
–Box Stage Media
