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Tiger Woods won’t resume his third spherical at Augusta Nationwide Sunday after the five-time Masters champion withdrew from the event due to a foot damage.
Posting on Twitter, Woods stated: “I’m dissatisfied to must WD this morning as a consequence of reaggravating my plantar fasciitis. Thanks to the followers and to @TheMasters who’ve proven me a lot love and help. Good luck to the gamers at this time!”
The golf nice had endured an terrible begin to his third spherical and the sound of the klaxon, which introduced the third day of The Masters to an early finish Saturday, could have been music to his ears.
On a chilly and damp Saturday, with the rain pummeling down, Woods might be seen limping on the seventeenth gap. When organizers deemed that the persistent rain made the course unplayable, Woods was nine-over for the event and six-over for the spherical.
Earlier than play was set to start Sunday, event organizers introduced Woods had withdrawn as a consequence of damage. Woods later revealed it was plantar fasciitis – a tissue irritation that causes ache within the heel.
Woods suffered extreme leg accidents in a 2021 automotive crash and has over time undergone a number of surgical procedures on his again.
The 15-time main winner has solely performed competitively as soon as this season and within the construct as much as the event advised reporters that he doesn’t play or observe a lot anymore.
“I don’t play as many tournaments, and I don’t observe as a lot. I’m restricted in what I can do,” he stated, in line with Reuters.
However he had displayed his standard grit and resilience to proceed Saturday, regardless that hopes of profitable a sixth inexperienced jacket had lengthy since pale.
Questions will now be requested as as to whether Woods will ever play on the prestigious occasion once more after he had urged final week that this might be his ultimate look at Augusta and admitted that he was in “fixed” ache through the opening spherical on Thursday.
“I don’t know what number of extra (Masters) I’ve in me,” he stated earlier than the event began.
Beginning on the tenth gap, as organizers tried to get as a lot of the play accomplished as attainable after the second spherical was suspended on Friday due to unhealthy climate, Woods started his third spherical with a bogey.
Neither the circumstances nor his kind improved a lot after that. One other bogey on the 14th and double bogeys on the fifteenth and sixteenth left the 47-year-old backside of the leaderboard with the worst rating of the day.
He had had little time to get pleasure from making the lower at Augusta for a record-equaling twenty third consecutive time, beginning his third spherical just a few hours after finishing the second spherical.
