Tiger Woods admits he needs to make significant improvements heading into the final couple of majors following a missed cut at the PGA Championship.
Woods will spend the next few weeks gearing up for the US Open in Pinehurst in June but a lack of tournament rounds has caught up with him particularly yesterday as he slumped to six-over 77 that included two triple-bogeys in the first four holes as he missed the cut.
“I need to clean up my rounds,” Woods said. “Physically, yes, I am better than I was a month ago [The Masters]. I still have more ways to go, lots of improvement to go physically, and hopefully my team and I can get that done pre-Pinehurst and going into it.
“It [his game] will [get better] In time. I just need to play more. Unfortunately, I just haven’t played a whole lot of tournaments, and not a whole lot of tournaments on my schedule either.
“Hopefully everything will somehow come together in my practice sessions at home and be ready for Pinehurst.”
Woods has completed all four rounds of a tournament four times since the 2020 Masters.
The fifteen-time major winner carded a rollercoaster 72 in round one but his hopes of making the cut for the second successive major this season were dashed with a triple bogey on the 2nd hole and he followed that up with a bogey and another triple bogey.
“I got off to bad start and the rough grabbed me at 2. No sand in the bunker as well. Just made a mistake there. I compounded the problem there at 4. Just kept making mistakes and things you can’t do, not just in tournaments but in majors especially. And I just kept making them. I hung around for most of the day but unfortunately the damage was done early.”
Woods spends a lot of his time off the course on the PGA Tour policy board and he confirmed he won’t be giving up his duties in order to play a busier schedule.
“No, they’re both equally important to me, playing and my responsibilities as a player director, whether it’s on policy board or it’s on the enterprise board. All three are important in their own different ways.
“Different ways that, one, for me playing for pride and what I can do out here, but also off the golf course the impact and responsibility that I have as a player director and as a representative of the players and what I can do off the golf course to help this tour.”
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