TIGER WOODS BOMBS OUT OF PGA AFTER HORROR FRIDAY
TIGER WOODS PICKED UP PGA AFTER HORROR FRIDAY
Beaten by two triple bogeys at the start of his round, Tiger Woods shot a six-over-par 77 on Friday and will miss qualifying for the PGA Championship.
Woods failed to improve on the 72 he shot Thursday morning at Valhalla Golf Club. At seven-over 149, Woods was tied for 134th out of 155 in the field when the second round was suspended due to darkness.
Woods, 48, has not made the cut at the PGA Championship since 2022 where he withdrew after the second round, when he tied for 37th. It was the 15-time major champion’s first start since setting his 24th straight Masters record last month at Augusta National.
After the round, Woods said he felt better physically than he did a month ago, but needed to do more reps before next month’s U.S. Open at No. 2 Pinehurst. “I need to play more,” Woods told reporters.
“Unfortunately, I haven’t played that many tournaments and I haven’t played that many tournaments on my schedule. “Hopefully in my home workouts everything will fall into place somehow and I’ll be ready for Pinehurst.”
Woods started Friday with seven birdies over three holes. In the second, he hit a shot from one bunker to the other of the green before reaching the green in five shots and finishing with two shots. When his third shot on the fourth missed the green, he fell into the sand again. His first attempt wide of the target caught him on the upper lip and the ball returned to his feet. Again, it took me five shots to hit the green.
Woods then had back-to-back birdies on the 7th and 8th, but lost with back-to-back bogeys on the 11th and 12th. He ended the week with a birdie on the par-5 18th hole.
“I have to clean up the round,” he said. “But physically, I’m definitely better than I was a month ago. I still have a long way to go and a lot of areas to improve physically. Hopefully, with my team, I can get there before and on the day of Pinehurst.”
Woods was playing at the site of his 2000 PGA Championship victory. It was the third leg of his “Tiger Slam,” a streak of four consecutive majors from 2000 to 2001.
