Tiger Woods Leaves Edinburgh Airport Vowing To Return To The Game Stronger.

Three-time Open champion Tiger Woods left Edinburgh Airport around 6.30am this morning (Sunday) vowing he will come back stronger after bowing out of the 144th Open by missing the cut in two major championships in a row for the first time.

Woods, 39, finished the weather-delayed second round with a three-over-par 75 for a seven-over aggregate of 151 and 17 shots behind fellow American Dustin Johnson enjoyed a one shot lead at 10-under par at the halfway stage of golf’s oldest major

“Next time it comes around, hopefully I play a little bit better than I did the last two times,” said Woods.Tiger WOODS (USA) tees off the 18th green during Saturday's delayed Round 2 of the 144th Open Championship, St Andrews Old Course, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. 18/07/2015. Picture Eoin Clarke, www.golffile.ie

Tiger Woods hits his last drive in the 2015 Open but vowing he will return stronger despite rounds of 76 and 75.

The 14-time major winner Woods’s fate was sealed when he carded three straight bogeys from the 13th.

The 2000, 2005 and 2006 Open champion also missed the cut in last month’s U.S. Open where he endured horror rounds of 80 followed by a 76.

Woods never recovered from a first hole bogey on Thursday when he put his ball straight into the Swilcan Burn on route to then posting four other bogeys in the first seven holes.

Woods also rarely got a decent break finding a divot twice in his first round but then also putting his ball into bushes right off the sixth from where he had to take a penalty drop.

If there was any brilliance it came late in his second round when he was left of the 16th fairway and from an uphill lie he put his second shot near tap-in distance.

“I only made three birdies in two days. That’s not very good,” added Woods, who has plummeted from number one to 241st in the world.

“It was one thing after another. I had my opportunities, I just didn’t get the ball close enough and then when I did I didn’t make them,” he said.

Woods, tied 147th in a field of 156, praised the 18th-hole ovation he received from the crowd that remained through a 10-and-a-half-hour suspension in play caused by high winds.

“The people were fantastic,” he said. “To stay out here all day and to have that kind of a warm reception is awfully special.

“It’s one of the things I was talking about with [playing partner] Jason Day, it’s the greatest walk in golf. He said, ‘Yeah, it’s nice when you have an eight-shot lead too’.”

The Open is expected to return to St Andrews in 2021, and on the occasion of the 150th Open, and with Woods joking:  “I’ll probably have less hair then and hopefully a little better game.”

Woods next event will be the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits and not the proceeding week’s WGC – Bridgestone Invitational despite Woods winning the event on eight occasions.



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