His task might have gotten easier after McIlroy, the reigning PGA Championship and British Open champion, announced yesterday that he had ruptured a left ankle ligament playing football with his pals last Saturday and was not going to defend his crown next week in Scotland.
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Oh, and Kinsley drove the 18th hole on the 356-yard finisher, making Woods feel a bit older. No timescale has been placed on the 26-year-old’s return to competitive golf but he will be the notable absentee when the 144th Open begins at St Andrews. Fans of the Northern Irishman now turn their eyes to August 13 and the opening round of the PGA Championship, where McIlroy is again the defending champion. The 14-times major winner’s career has been hampered by serious injury in the past. “He said, ‘You’ve been through a lot of injuries over the years, ‘ so he picked my brain a little bit”. “He said, “You’ve been through a lot of injuries over the years””.
“He’s sitting there as world number one right now so a guy like him, as good as he is, coming back potentially stronger, is something we’re all going to have to watch out for”.
It is a source of frustration for a player who has won on the US Tour for six successive years and triumphed at the 2013 US Open that his first Open remains his best. It’s a golf course that fits him well.
“That’s the way it goes”.
“Thank you for all your best wishes”. Sometimes it’s through the sport or sometimes it’s through fun activities. Nervously waiting for him were five local amateur golfers who were warming up on stationary bikes when Woods entered the room, introduced himself, hopped on a machine… and proceeded to get grilled about his workout regimen. As the professional game took over, Palmer cooked up the idea of a modern slam when he came over to St. Andrews for the first time in 1960 as the Masters and U.S. Open champion.
He admitted he was stunned at how soft and lush the Old Course is
playing after heavy rain
battered it last week.
“I love watching Roger Federer play tennis”. “I think he showed us something there; his ability to handle all the chaos, the mental chaos of that golf course”, Chamblee says.
Dr. Cohen, who was an assistant team physician for the New York Yankees from 2004-08, said athletes at the highest level routinely come back too soon.
“I was shocked”, Woods added. It was bone dry.
“You only need to win it once and it doesn’t matter what the previous 10 years look like”. It’s totally changed. I did not feel like he [McIlroy] was doing anything that was an unnecessary risk. “What surfaced was like a 12-foot long, 300-pound black tip shark that had eaten this tuna and then had hooked itself, so I guess I caught both in one because I got that shark”. “At St. Andrews, some of the places you aim the ball off the tee is completely freakish”.
Showing his reverence and focus for St. Andrews and the Old Course, Spieth is particularly fond of the historic links.
“I nearly got pulled in”, Spieth said from the John Deere Classic, where the world No. 2 will tune up for the Open Championship. That was fun. It sounds insane when I told everyone at Greenbrier that I felt close, after the scores I shot at the Memorial and the US Open.
“I’ve only done it once and unfortunately just for two days”.
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“I think that he’s going to do very well at St Andrews because a good shot there is often 20, 30 feet away, especially if they tuck the pins”.
