published: Jul 9, 2025

Is Tiger Woods playing in The Open?

Tiger Woods might have enjoyed early season activity with TGL, but he announced some news in March which had huge ramifications for the rest of his season

ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: Tiger Woods of the United States acknowledges the crowd on the Swilcan Bridge on the 18th hole during Day Two of The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course on July 15, 2022 in St Andrews, Scotland. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/R&A/R&A via Getty Images)

Tiger Woods contemplated if he might have played in his last US Open after missing the cut at Pinehurst in 2024.

It was only the second US Open he’d played in five years and he hasn’t made a cut at America’s national championship since 2019.

Whether it has been by way of withdrawal or just not finding the scores to progress into the weekend, watching Tiger complete 72 holes at one of golf’s major championships is now a rare occurrence.

Since he gloriously won the Masters and his 15th major title in 2019, he’s made 14 major appearances, missed the cut in seven of them and withdrawn from two to protect the injuries he suffered in a car accident at the start of 2021.

“I can’t win the tournament from where I’m at, so it certainly is frustrating. I thought I played well enough to be up there in contention. It just didn’t work out,” he said at the 2024 US Open.

“As far as my last Open Championship or US Open Championship, I don’t know what that is. It may or may not be.”

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Is Tiger Woods playing in The Open Championship?

These weren’t the words golf fans and Tiger lovers wanted to hear, but, in the same breath, the 49-year-old said he had one more event in his 2024 calendar, which was the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon.

He missed the cut in brutal conditions, but after the second round, he was asked if he would play at Royal Portrush in 2025.

“Yeah, definitely. Okay, sorry. That’s a year away.”

Woods was right to note that this was 12 months in the future, and in those 12 months, he took a step backwards with regard to his physical fitness. He didn’t play in the Genesis Invitational at the start of the season, needing time to cope with the death of his mother Kultida.

He played in TGL, the indoor simulator league that he masterminded with Rory McIlroy and he played in the Seminole Pro-Member in Florida on March 3. But on March 11, he announced that he had ruptured his left Achilles and had a minimally invasive Achilles tendon repair performed for a ruptured tendon.

Tiger Woods will not be playing in The Open at Royal Portrush and it is hard to say when he will next play competitively.

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