Tiger Woods admitted that each facet of his sport wants enchancment heading into the rest of the large season after lacking out on a lower on the PGA Championship.
Woods, making his first look since qualifying for the weekend final month on the Masters, completed with a bogey-bogey 72 within the opening spherical earlier than struggling a nightmare within the second spherical at Valhalla A very good begin.
The previous world No. 1 made two triple bogeys on his first 4 holes on Friday to shoot a 6-over 77, the primary time in his profession that he has received greater than twice in a serious. He made three bogeys for the primary time and ended the week with seven strokes.
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A glance again on the highs and lows of Tiger Woods’ first-round match on the PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Woods will play in subsequent month’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst after receiving a particular invitation from the US Golf Affiliation, and the 48-year-old admitted that forward of his third main, each on the golf course There may be nonetheless a number of work that must be completed, each inside and out of doors.
“I want to scrub up my spherical,” Woods stated. “Bodily, sure, I am significantly better than I used to be a month in the past [The Masters]. I nonetheless have much more highway to go and loads to enhance bodily, and hopefully me and my crew can get it completed and into it earlier than Pinehurst.
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Tiger Woods’ hopes of advancing are dashed after a triple bogey on the par-4 second gap
“it [his game] will [get better] well timed. I simply must play just a little extra. Sadly, I didn’t get to play a number of video games and I didn’t have a number of video games on my schedule.
“Hopefully all the things can come collectively in my coaching at dwelling and prepare for Pinehurst.”
Tiger Woods was the winner of the Valhalla Championship through the 2000 PGA Championship, a part of the notorious “Tiger Slam”
Woods has performed restricted matches attributable to harm in recent times, along with his newest absence which means he has nonetheless solely accomplished all 4 rounds since defending his Masters title in November 2020.
What’s incorrect with Woods?
Trying to get off to a quick begin within the second spherical, Woods missed a birdie alternative on the primary gap, then made an unpleasant triple bogey on the following par-4 and three-putted the par-3 third. keep away from.
Any hopes he had of constructing it by way of the weekend have been shortly dashed when he made triple bogey on two makes an attempt from a greenside bunker on the par-4 fourth gap, although Woods responded with a five-shot Birdied the seventh gap and got here painfully near a triple bogey.
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Tiger Woods got here inside inches of his first PGA Tour hole-in-one since 1997 throughout his second spherical at Valhalla.
After a stable par on the ninth gap, Woods shot a 40 on the fortieth gap, however after a three-putt bogey on the eleventh gap, he missed a five-foot putt to remain in the remainder of the match. improved the percentages of getting the worst spherical of his profession within the subsequent spherical.
Woods closed out a disappointing week with a sequence of pars on the again 9 and went up and down the tough earlier than ending with a birdie on the par-5 to as soon as once more miss the lower.
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“I received off to a nasty begin and the tough caught me at two,” Woods added. “There was no sand within the bunker both – only a mistake there. I compounded the issue at 4 o’clock.
“I simply stored making errors and doing issues that you would be able to’t do, not solely in tournaments however particularly in majors. I simply stored making these errors. I used to be hanging round all day, however sadly, the injury It was brought about very early on.
The place will Woods play subsequent?
He has received the U.S. Open thrice, in 2000, 2002 and 2008, and is now getting ready to return to the occasion for the primary time since 2020. A schedule of “month-to-month tournaments” is established for future seasons.
Woods has no tournaments listed on his schedule on his web site, though he’s additionally eligible to play within the British Open till he’s 60, which he goals to play at Royal Troon from July 18-21 to finish his first since 2019 The primary full main schedule in years.
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