Reality of Tiger Woods’ Decline Setting in for Golf Star’s Fans at British Open

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Published: July 18, 2015

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ST ANDREWS, Scotland — "You guys think I'm done and buried, but I'm still here."

That was Tiger Woods speaking prior to the start of the Open Championship, simultaneously a rallying cry and rebuke to those who now doubt his ability to ever win another major. A few days later, however, and when written down on paper, it reads merely as a statement of fact: Yes, we do think he's done and buried, but he is very much still here.

Except Woods will not be at St Andrews any longer, after a missed cut that many anticipated from about midday Thursday was confirmed with the (belated) conclusion of the second round early Saturday evening.

Woods ended up shooting a three-over 75—having already been forced to wait almost 10 hours on Saturday to complete the final six holes of his second round—to follow Thursday's round of 76, enough to leave him at seven over par for the tournament and on an early flight home.

"The course wasn't playing that hard," Woods told reporters afterward. "I just didn't get much out of it any of the two rounds. It's frustrating."



Perhaps the time has finally come (if it had not come already) to stop trusting anything the 39-year-old has to say about the state of his game, and judge him solely by the scores he puts down. That certainly felt like the resolution from much of the crowd around the Old Course, whose cheering for the 14-time major champion grew less and less vocal as his tournament lurched to its early conclusion.

As he walked the course late in his round today, a couple of girls shouted, "We still love you Tiger!" before a lone guy said, pretty unconvincingly, "You'll get it back!" 

At one point in his pre-tournament press conference, Woods also mentioned in passing that he "had a chance to win at the Masters"—an observation almost amusing in its self-delusion. Woods was briefly on the leaderboard over the weekend ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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