Tiger Woods returned to his home on Jupiter Island much sooner than he hoped after another failed attempt to play into the weekend at a major championship.
But the 15-time major winner had a notable week beyond posting a two-day total 14-over 156 at Scotland’s Royal Troon Golf Course.
Tiger has missed the cut in three consecutive majors for just the second time in his career, and he’s failed to finish six of eight majors he’s entered since his February 2021 accident.
But before revealing Friday he’s done playing competitive golf until the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in early December, and confirming he will return to the PNC Championship in Orlando on Dec. 20 to once again play with his son, Charlie — Tiger called the tournament once known as the “father-son” the “fifth major” — Tiger had an eventful week.
Tiger was impacted by the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, telling the BBC he watched coverage of the shooting the entire flight to Scotland and was not in the “right frame of mind” when he arrived. Trump emerged from the shooting with a bloodied right ear.
“I didn’t accomplish a lot because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” he said. “It was a long night and that’s all we watched the entire time on the way over here.
“I didn’t sleep at all on the flight, and then we just got on the golf course.”
Tiger and Trump, who lives in Palm Beach, are on friendly terms. The two have played golf together and in 2019 Trump awarded Tiger the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Tiger, though, did not arrive at the first tee wearing a large bandage on his right ear like some of Trump’s followers at the Republican National Convention.
