Injured Woods to overlook British Open

Jun 17, 2023 at 3:44 AM
Injured Woods to overlook British Open
File Photo: Tiger Woods and girlfriend Erica Herman on the 18th green during the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor on July 4 2022.

File Photo: Tiger Woods and girlfriend Erica Herman on the 18th inexperienced in the course of the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor on July 4 2022.
| Photo Credit: AP

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File Photo: Tiger Woods and girlfriend Erica Herman on the 18th inexperienced in the course of the JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor on July 4 2022.
| Photo Credit: AP

Tiger Woods will miss subsequent month’s British Open on the Royal Liverpool course because the American star recovers from surgical procedure.

Woods withdrew from the third spherical of the Masters in April on account of harm and won’t return in time for the British Open.

Woods stated he suffered plantar fasciitis on the Masters and the 47-year-old then had a subtalar fusion process in New York to handle an issue brought on by a earlier fracture of a bone in his ankle joint.

The 15-time main winner didn’t compete within the US PGA Championship at Oak Hill in May or this week’s US Open at Los Angeles Country Club.

Woods gained a 3rd British Open title at Royal Liverpool in 2006 in his first event because the demise of his father Earl two months earlier.

But British Open organisers have confirmed Woods is not going to make an emotional return to the Hoylake course in July.

“We have been advised that Tiger won’t be playing at Royal Liverpool,” an R&A spokesman stated.

“We wish him all the best with his recovery.”

Woods missed the reduce within the one hundred and fiftieth British Open at St Andrews final yr.

His withdrawal from the newest version will place additional scrutiny on whether or not he’ll return to golf.

Before the Masters this yr, Woods urged it may very well be the final time he was in a position to compete at Augusta National.

In February 2021, he feared his leg must be amputated because of the severe accidents he suffered in a automotive accident in Los Angeles.