![]() ![]() ![]() He has already circled The 151st Open at Royal Liverpool in his diary but, with the next venues for The Open only announced up to 2025, it is unknown when the Claret Jug will next be contested on the Old Course. The evidence of the last two days suggests he is probably right.įor 36 holes, Woods hacked his way around the Old Course, struggling for any kind of rhythm, and looking every inch like a player with his right leg held together by metal and who had only played three times since a near-fatal car crash 18 months ago. I'll be able to play future Opens, yes, but next time here, I doubt if I'll be competitive at this level.” “But I don't know if I will be physically able to play back here again when it comes back around. “I'm not retiring from the game,” he said. The home of golf is so often a fitting final act for a golfing great and, though Woods intends to play on, this was a final goodbye from the game’s birthplace to perhaps its greatest son. Those here were hardly going to let the moment slide and tears filled the three-time Champion Golfer’s eyes as he was cheered, clapped and whooped for nearly five full minutes from the grandstand, the road and even the R&A Clubhouse With the sun shining and the galleries packed, he smacked his tee shot down the middle of the fairway, stepped across the Swilcan Bridge and was hit by an emotional freight train the likes of which the Old Course has rarely witnessed.Īfter rounds of 78-75, the cut was a distant dream, and so this was Woods’ St Andrews farewell - the end of a love affair that started 27 years ago and delivered two Claret Jugs. Tiger Woods has experienced plenty in life but even he has surely not seen anything quite like what unfolded on St Andrews’ final hole on this barmy Friday afternoon.
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