Tiger Woods highlighted the detrimental influence of his off-course commitments after lacking the lower within the 106th US PGA Championship.
Woods carded a second spherical of 77 at Valhalla to complete seven over par, with the entire harm performed in a three-hole stretch on the entrance 9.
The 15-time main winner ran up a triple bogey on the second, bogeyed the third and carded one other triple bogey on the fourth to finish his possibilities of making the weekend.
Woods, who performed the remaining 14 holes in a single beneath and virtually made a hole-in-one on the eighth, mentioned on Tuesday that his time-consuming function in negotiating a possible peace deal between golf’s warring factions may rule him out of the Ryder Cup captaincy in 2025.
And the 48-year-old indicated it was additionally lowering the time he has to organize for his occasional aggressive appearances.
“Effectively, for those who ask any of the (PGA Tour) participant administrators, we simply don’t sleep a lot,” Woods mentioned.
“There’s a number of late nights and zoom calls at odd hours of the evening, all all through the evening, and plenty of e-mails to learn.
“These are all issues that I signed up for as a participant director and ways in which I can assist, and hopefully we will make extra of an influence.”
Requested if he was assured his recreation would enhance forward of subsequent month’s US Open, Woods mentioned: “It’ll. In time. I simply must play extra.
“Sadly, I simply haven’t performed a complete lot of tournaments, and (there are) not a complete lot of tournaments on my schedule both.
“Hopefully the whole lot will by some means come collectively in my follow periods at residence and be prepared for Pinehurst.”