Tiger Woods admitted that enhancements are wanted in all areas of his sport heading into the remainder of the most important season after lacking the minimize on the PGA Championship.
Woods, making his first look since ending final of these making it via to the weekend at The Masters final month, skilled a bogey-bogey end to his opening-round 72 earlier than making a nightmare begin to his second spherical at Valhalla.
The previous world No 1 made two triple-bogeys within the first 4 holes of a six-over 77 on Friday, the primary time in his skilled profession he has had a number of triple-bogeys in a serious spherical, seeing him finish the week on seven over and 19 strokes behind midway chief Xander Schauffele.
Woods is about to play the US Open at Pinehurst subsequent month after receiving a particular invite by the USGA to function, with the 48-year-old conceding there may be loads of work required – on and off the golf course – earlier than the third main of the yr.
“I need to clean up my rounds,” Woods stated. “Bodily, sure, I’m higher than I used to be a month in the past [The Masters]. I nonetheless have extra methods to go, a number of enchancment to go bodily, and hopefully my workforce and I can get that finished pre-Pinehurst and going into it.
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Tiger Woods’ hopes of creating the minimize light after a triple-bogey seven on the par-four second
“It [his game] will [get better] In time. I simply have to play extra. Sadly, I simply have not performed a complete lot of tournaments, and never a complete lot of tournaments on my schedule both.
“Hopefully everything will somehow come together in my practice sessions at home and be ready for Pinehurst.”
Tiger Woods was a earlier winner at Valhalla through the 2000 PGA Championship, a part of the notorious ‘Tiger Slam’
Woods has performed a restricted aggressive schedule lately as a consequence of harm, together with his newest missed minimize which means that he has nonetheless solely accomplished all 4 rounds of a event 4 occasions since his Masters title defence in November 2020.
What went improper for Woods?
Searching for a quick begin to his second spherical, Woods missed a birdie alternative on his opening gap earlier than following an unsightly triple-bogey on the par-four subsequent and three-putt bogey on the par-three third.
Any hope of him making the weekend rapidly light when he took two makes an attempt out of a greenside bunker on his approach to one other triple-bogey on the par-four fourth, though Woods responded by birdieing the par-five seventh and coming agonisingly near a hole-in-one on the subsequent.
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Tiger Woods was inches away from his first PGA Tour hole-in-one since 1997 throughout his second spherical at Valhalla.
A strong par on the ninth noticed Woods attain the flip in 40, just for him to comply with a three-putt bogey on the eleventh by lacking a five-footer to save lots of par on the subsequent to boost the potential of a career-worst spherical on the occasion.
Woods responded to scramble a sequence of pars on his again 9, earlier than signing off a disappointing week and one other missed minimize by getting up and down from the tough to birdie the par-five final.
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“I got off to bad start and the rough grabbed me at two,” Woods added. “No sand in the bunker as well – just made a mistake there. I compounded the problem there at four.
“I simply saved making errors and issues you may’t do, not simply in tournaments however in majors particularly. I simply saved making them. I hung round for a lot of the day however sadly the harm was finished early.”
The place will Woods play subsequent?
He has gained the US Open on three events, in 2000, 2002 and 2008, and is now set to return to the occasion for the primary time since 2020. Woods is unlikely to function in a daily PGA Tour occasion earlier than then, primarily based on the ‘event a month’ schedule he focused for the season forward.
Woods has no tournaments listed within the schedule on his web site, though may compete at The Open till he’s 60 and can be aiming to function at Royal Troon from July 18-21 to finish a full main schedule for the primary time since 2019.
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