2024 PGA Championship: Tiger Woods misses the cut.
Louisville, Kentucky Tiger Woods is returning home this weekend after shooting a 6-over 77 in the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on Friday, marking his 11th straight round of par or worse in a major championship.
Woods shot significantly above the anticipated cut line of 1-under 141, finishing with a 36-hole total of 7-over 149. He has withdrawn twice and missed the cut ten times in his last 22 big league starts.
Despite this, the 15-time major winner stated that his injuries from a vehicle accident in February 2021 are getting better and he thinks his playing will improve as well.
At Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina, on June 13–16, Woods, 48, announced his intention to compete in the upcoming major, the U.S. Open.
With regard to the prospect of his game getting better, Woods stated, “It will — in time.” I should play more. Regretfully, I haven’t participated in many tournaments and don’t have many scheduled either. With any luck, during my at-home practice sessions, everything will click and I’ll be ready for Pinehurst.”
For starters, Woods’s round on Friday could not have begun much worse: he made par on the first hole and blew the par-4 second. Woods hit his second shot into the rough and his third into a bunker after hitting his drive into the left rough. Then he chipped out to twenty-five feet, two-putted for a triple bogey, then skulled a shot across the green and into another bunker.
On the short par-4 fourth hole, Woods made his second triple-bogey in three holes after three-putting for a bogey on the par-3 third. After his drive, he was barely 75 yards from the hole, but it took him five shots to get to the green. His fourth failed to emerge from the sand, and his third went into a bunker. He smashed his putt from eleven and a half feet away. After four holes of the round, Woods was 7 over.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, it was the first occasion in Woods’ 1,344 PGA Tour rounds that he had multiple triple-bogeys.
Prior to Friday, Woods had only made one triple bogey in his 22 prior PGA Championship starts, which occurred on the sixth hole at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, third round of the 2022 PGA Championship.
“I had a hard start, and the rough got me at two,” Woods remarked. “There is also no sand in the bunker. I simply erred there. There at number four, I made matters worse. Simply keep doing things you shouldn’t have done and making blunders, especially in key tournaments. And I continued to make them. Unfortunately, the harm was done early even though I was around for the remainder of the day.”
