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Tiger Woods introduced on Tuesday that he won’t play subsequent week’s US Open at Brookline to proceed his restoration from extreme leg accidents sustained in a automotive accident final yr. The 15-time main champion withdrew from the PGA Championship final month after the third spherical. “I beforehand knowledgeable (organizers) the USGA that I can’t be competing within the @usopengolf as my physique wants extra time to get stronger for main championship golf,” Woods tweeted, including that he’s nonetheless planning to play within the British Open at St Andrews, which begins on July 14.
“I am excited to get again on the market quickly.”
The 46-year-old made a shock return on the Masters in April, after needing surgical procedure to restore his proper leg following the automotive crash in February 2021.
He made the reduce at Augusta Nationwide and on the PGA at Southern Hills, the place he pulled out following the third-worst main spherical of his profession.
The American is a three-time US Open champion, with the final of these titles coming in 2008 at Torrey Pines when he defied a left knee harm to win in a play-off.
Woods stated he’s nonetheless planning to “be able to play in Eire” on the JP McManus Professional-am event the week earlier than the British Open.
He has lifted the Claret Jug twice at St Andrews in Scotland, in 2000 and 2005.
Now sitting 881st on the earth rankings, Woods beforehand got here again after present process spinal fusion surgical procedure in 2017 to win his most up-to-date main title on the Masters three years in the past.
US media stories have prompt that Woods turned down a big provide to hitch the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Worldwide Sequence, which holds its inaugural occasion in England this week.
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