Tiger Woods appeared just a little drained on his arrival on the Scottish match final week and now we all know the rationale, due to the reasons he has given to the British media. Apparently, Woods was advised, simply earlier than the departure of the flight to Europe, the information of the tried assassination of Donald Trump throughout a rally in Pennsylvania.
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The golfer, 48, left Florida on Saturday and didn’t carry out to the specified stage within the first day at Royal Troon on Sunday, having been up all evening, following how occasions unfolded in his nation across the former president and, once more, candidate for the White Home. after intently following the occasions on the former president's rally in Pennsylvania.
"I didn't do effectively as a result of I wasn't in the suitable mind set," Woods advised BBC Sport on Tuesday. "It was an extended evening (due to the assassination try) and that's all we noticed the entire time on the way in which right here. I didn't sleep in any respect on the flight, and we went straight from the airport to the golf course."
The fifteen-time match champion was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019, shortly after his comeback victory on the Augusta Masters, and it was Donald Trump himself who hung the medal on him. Since then, the sympathies and friendship between politician and athlete are mutual. From then on they started to play collectively and even pair up within the occasional charity match. Requested about that friendship in 2018, he stated: "Properly, he's the president of the USA."
The 82-time PGA Tour winner has endured a tough main season, having completed sixtieth on the Masters earlier than lacking the minimize at each the PGA Championship and the US Open.
Nevertheless, Woods stays adamant that he’ll play so long as he feels he can win, heading off recommendations from former world No. 2 Colin Montgomerie who has already reiterated that he ought to retire for good, to which Tiger replied: "Properly, as a former champion, I'm exempt till I'm 60. Colin is just not. So he doesn't have the ability to make that call. I do," Woods advised reporters, referring to the truth that he has earned computerized qualification for the occasion due to his previous victories.
