There’ll be no Sunday red for Tiger Woods within the US PGA Championship.
The PGA of The United States stated Woods had withdrawn from the tournament after he had a profession-excessive 79 within the third round at Southern Hills.
Woods limped his device around within the wintry and wind, at one level making 5 straight bogeys.
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Here’s the first time Woods has withdrawn from a prime as a respectable.
He declined interviews after his round, speaking most attention-grabbing to a pool reporter.
Woods used to be asked if he felt as although he would play the last round. All he stated used to be he used to be sore, he would enact some work and stare how it went.
Woods has made the within the reduction of within the two majors he has played since his correct kind leg used to be battered in a automobile rupture 15 months within the past.
He had to play his closing four holes on Saturday in a single-underneath par simply to atomize 80 after making 5 bogeys in succession in a prime for the first time in his respectable profession.
After holing from 13 feet to set par on the first, Woods drove into the creek which bisects the 2d hole and made a bogey 5 following a penalty fall, earlier than finding more water on the par-three sixth.
Woods then left out the fairway along with his third shot from the fall zone on his solution to a triple-bogey six and dropped one other shot on the next to traipse further down the leaderboard.
The chilly climate used to be doing Woods no favours resulting from his intensive historical previous of injuries and bogeys at the seventh and ninth – the save apart he thinned his 2d shot into the face of a bunker – finished a depressing entrance 9 of 41.
Four more bogeys to begin up the attend 9 left Woods in hazard of recording his worst rating in any main, his undesirable impress of 81 predicament in ghastly climate within the 2002 Originate Championship at Muirfield.
Yet in conventional vogue he refused to throw within the towel, holing from 35 feet for his first birdie of the day on the 15th and celebrating by sardonically preserving one finger within the chilly air.
He then finished with three pars to card his worst US PGA rating, eclipsing a 77 within the first round in 2011.
“I upright didn’t play smartly,” Woods stated.
“I didn’t hit the ball completely and acquired off to not the begin up I needed to catch off to. I thought I hit a respectable tee shot down two and ended up within the water, and upright by no device truly purchased any type of momentum on my facet.”
– with PA