Tiger Woods Misses British Open Cut

It is no certainty that Friday was Woods’s final Open at St. Andrews, but it will be years before it returns to the Old Course, and Woods, broken down and rebuilt so many times over the decades, is 46. He has not committed to any tournaments for next year and said again that he had craved being at this particular Open, the 150th and the latest at St. Andrews, his favorite course.

He could return, perhaps with his son, for a round on the Old Course. (“I’m able to get a tee time,” he said with a grin.) But all week long, the prospects of a Woods retirement seemed better than a Woods vow, or simply an audible aspiration, to be back in a St. Andrews field.

So an even bigger thicket of spectators, probably 20-deep or more in some pockets, than usual trailed him since his start on Friday morning.

“That counts as watching Tiger take a shot,” one man said as Woods merely walked past him on the 16th fairway.

“Tiger, you’d better make this,” one woman said before a putt on that hole.

“Oh, my God,” she piped up again after he missed.

“St. Andrews loves you, Tiger!” shouted someone else.

The spectators did, even if Woods’s final score suggested otherwise.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/sports/golf/tiger-woods-british-open-missed-cut.html