Woods to bid for third Open title at St Andrews
TIGER Woods has confirmed that the Open Championship at St Andrews, scene of two of his three victories in the event, will be on his “busy summer” schedule.
The 14-times major winner announced his trip to the home of golf as he took the unusual step of revealing his upcoming schedule, having already announced he will be playing in next week’s Players’ Championship at TPC Sawgrass. He wrote on Twitter: “See you at the US Open, Open Champ, Memorial, Greenbrier and my Foundation’s event, the Quicken Loans National. Going to be a busy summer.”
It is a huge boost for the world’s oldest major that Woods has committed to trying to claim his third Claret Jug on the Old Course in July.
He won by nine shots in 2000 – his first triumph in the event – then finished five clear of second-placed Colin Montgomerie five years later.
His only other Open Championship victory came at Royal Liverpool in 2006 and, if there’s one course on the R&A rota where Woods will feel confident that he can kick-start his bid to get closer to Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 majors, then it is surely St Andrews.
Having made a promising return in the Masters following a two-month absence, Woods, who failed to qualify for this week’s Wgc-cadillac Championship after falling outside the world’s top 100 for the first time in more than 18 years, will find himself in the spotlight again at Sawgrass next week.
His first appearance in the socalled fifth major since 2013 will now be tinged with sadness following the death of Calvin Peete at the age of 71.
Winner of 12 PGA Tour titles, including the Players’