Tiger Woods will make subsequent month’s Open Championship at Royal Troon his final occasion of the season after lacking the minimize within the US Open
Woods added a second spherical of 73 to his opening 74 at Pinehurst to complete seven over par and miss the minimize for a second successive main.
The 48-year-old admitted on Thursday he was caught between practising extra to realize aggressive sharpness and worrying about struggling one more harm which might rule him out of any motion.
Requested if he would attempt to play extra occasions, Woods stated: “I’ve solely bought yet one more event this season.
“I don’t suppose even when I win The Open I’ll be within the [FedEx Cup] play-offs. Only one extra occasion after which I’ll come again each time I come again.”
US OPEN FUTURE
The 15-time main winner was additionally requested if this might have been his final US Open look after needing a particular exemption from the USGA to compete at Pinehurst.
“Properly, it’s a kind of issues the place to be able to win a golf event, it’s important to make the minimize,” Woods stated.
“I can’t win the event from the place I’m at, so it actually is irritating. I assumed I performed effectively sufficient to be up there in competition. It simply didn’t work out.
“So far as my final Open Championship or US Open Championship, I don’t know what that’s. It might or will not be.”
After protecting his first 14 holes in two over par, Woods thought he had birdied the fifteenth to get again on the projected minimize line of 5 over, solely to see his ball lip out as he began to stroll in the direction of the outlet.
“Yeah, 15 harm,” he added. “That was an excellent, candy little seven iron in there and an excellent putt.
“If I make that putt it flips the momentum and I’m trying fairly good and as a substitute I’m on the mistaken aspect of the minimize line and having to do one thing good on the final three holes.
“I find yourself hitting a candy shot out of the difficulty on 16 and I assumed I holed my bunker shot at 17.”
