Tiger Woods PGA Championship absence defined with massive stars set to overlook out

Tiger Woods followers have been left disillusioned after the 15-time Major winner was pressured to withdraw from this week’s USA PGA Championship. But he’s not the one family identify who can be lacking from the leaderboard when the second Major of the season will get underway on Thursday. Woods has solely appeared in three occasions all season and was pressured to withdraw from final month’s US Masters at Augusta National with an ankle harm.

The 47-year-old has gained the US PGA Championship on 4 earlier events however can be denied the possibility to aim a fifth after he underwent surgical procedure to handle post-traumatic arthritis.

The specialist surgical procedure might hold him out of motion for so long as six months, with a Royal Liverpool Open look now additionally in severe doubt. But if the absence of Woods is a blow to golf followers and the occasion organisers, the omission of a number of different star names is an excellent greater disappointment.

Crowd favorite Sergio Garcia can be lacking from the sector for less than the second time in 24 years. Remarkably, the Spaniard performed in 84 straight Majors from 1999-2020 solely lacking out on the US Masters on the finish of his run as a consequence of a optimistic COVID-19 take a look at.

But having ditched the PGA Tour for the breakaway LIV Golf Tour, he has tumbled right down to 189th within the DP World Rankings and won’t seem at Oak Hill this week.

Garcia resigned from the PGA Tour final June. Fellow LIV Golf rebels Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter adopted swimsuit and also will be lacking from the line-up this week.

Another massive identify from the LIV Golf tour who can be nowhere to be seen on the US PGA Championship is Henrik Stenson. The 2016 Open champion can be one in all solely three Major winners from the previous 10 years – alongside Garcia and Bubba Watson – who won’t be competing this week.

With the breakaway tour not presently eligible for DP world rating factors, the Swede has dropped to 196th on this planet rankings and not too long ago additionally resigned his membership from the DP world tour.

Louis Oosthuizen has suffered the same destiny, with the South African LIV Golf star plummeting to 163 on this planet rankings. The 2010 Open champion has beforehand completed runner-up in all 4 majors however can be sitting this one out.

Last yr’s runner-up Will Zalitoris is without doubt one of the rising stars of the sport, however he won’t play once more all season after succumbing to a again harm at April’s Masters.

Here’s a listing of the big-name golfers who won’t be on the US PGA Championship this week:

Tiger Woods

Sergio Garcia

Lee Westwood

Henrik Stenson

Bubba Watson

Ian Poulter

Louis Oosthuizen

Will Zalatoris

Marc Leishman

Kevin Na