Woods crashes out at Bethpage

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Tiger Woods faced the media after missing the cut at the PGA Championship, and admitted illness contributed to his wayward performance

Tiger Woods will have an unscheduled weekend off after another wayward day with the driver led to him missing the cut at the PGA Championship.

Woods hit only three of 14 fairways at the punishing Bethpage Black course as he added a 73 to his opening 72 to slip to five over par – one stroke too many to extend his tournament.

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The Masters champion, who was runner-up to Brooks Koepka at last year’s PGA, was completely outclassed by his playing partner and finished 17 shots adrift of the record-breaking, runaway leader at the halfway stage.

Woods’ problems started at the opening hole, where he sent the crowd scattering with a pulled drive way left, and although he managed to scramble a par, he was not so fortunate at the second.

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The 43-year-old carded his first birdie of the day at the sixth after gouging his second out of the rough to the back fringe and holing from 17 feet, but he was unable to reach the next green from the right rough and missed from six feet for par.

Woods finally hit his first fairway of the day at the ninth, and although he was disappointed that his approach finished 40 feet from the flag, he nailed the putt to give himself some momentum to take into the back nine.

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However, three more missed fairways led to three consecutive dropped shots before he clawed one back at the long 13th despite finding a fairway bunker from the tee, but he then three-putted from just over 50 feet at the 15th to slip back outside the cut line.

Needing at least one birdie coming in to survive the cut, Woods was unable to get the putts to drop and he then revealed to the waiting media that he was still feeling the effects of the illness that struck him on Wednesday.

“It’s just the way it goes,” said Woods. “You know, I just don’t feel well and just not able to do it. Unfortunately, I just made too many mistakes and didn’t do the little things I needed to do. I had a couple of three-putts, I didn’t hit wedges close, I didn’t hit any fairways. Did a lot of little things wrong.

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“I’ve enjoyed being the Masters champion again, and the PGA was a quick turnaround, and unfortunately I just didn’t play well. I just wasn’t moving the way I needed to. There are going to be days and weeks where it’s just not going to work, and today was one of those days.

“But there’s no reason why I can’t get up to speed again and crank it back up. I’ve got to start feeling a little bit better first before that happens. We’ll do that first and then start cranking it back up again.”

Woods also paid tribute to the record-breaking exploits of playing partner Koepka, who posted the lowest 36-hole score in major championship history as he opened up a remarkable seven-shot lead.

Koepka was 17 shots ahead of Woods at the halfway stage

“What Brooksy did, he’s driving it 330 yards in the middle of the fairway and he’s got nine-irons when most of us are hitting four or five-irons, and he’s putting well,” Woods added. “That adds up to a pretty substantial lead, and if he keeps doing what he’s doing, there’s no reason why he can’t build on this lead.

“The golf course is soft enough where the power helps. So when he did miss the fairway, I missed it far enough down there where he was still able to hit wedges and nine-irons on the green, and on top of that, he missed on the correct sides, so he had good angles.

“To get to where he’s at, to go to the Challenge Tour, European Tour, he paid his dues. He found a game and a dedication that he needed to play well and he’s doing that. He’s got many more years ahead of him where he can do this.”