Was Tiger Preoccupied?

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Admits assassination attempt on Donald Trump affected him at 

2024 Open Championship


Tiger Woods returned to his residence on Jupiter Island sooner than expected following another unsuccessful effort to make the cut at a major championship. Despite posting a two-day total of 14-over 156 at Scotland’s Royal Troon Golf Course, the 15-time major champion had a noteworthy week. 

This marked the second time in his career that Tiger has missed the cut in three consecutive majors and has not completed six of the eight majors he has participated in since his February 2021 accident. Ahead of announcing that he will not be competing in any golf events until the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas in early December, and confirming his participation in the PNC Championship in Orlando on Dec. 20 where he will once again team up with his son, Charlie, Tiger referred to the tournament as the "fifth major." 

Tiger had a packed week, but he was affected by the attempt on Donald Trump's life, stating that he watched coverage of the shooting for the entire flight to Scotland and did not feel in the "right frame of mind" upon arrival. Trump sustained a bloodied right ear in the assassination attempt.

“I didn’t accomplish a lot because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” he said. “It was a long night and that’s all we watched the entire time on the way over here.

“I didn’t sleep at all on the flight, and then we just got on the golf course.”




Tiger and Trump, who lives in Palm Beach, are on friendly terms. The two have played golf together and in 2019 Trump awarded Tiger the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Tiger, though, did not arrive at the first tee wearing a large bandage on his right ear like some of Trump’s followers at the Republican National Convention.




Was he truly distracted, or is this just the Tiger we have come to expect late in his career?


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