Tiger Woods went home at the weekend for the third consecutive Major at the 2024 Open, posing the question of whether he still has the physical strength and desire to shake off the rust and get his game back to the top.
Woods’ golf has been poor by his extremely high standards this year and he’s now going to take four months off before returning at the Hero World Challenge and PNC Championship in December.
“I’d like to have played more, but I just wanted to make sure that I was able to play the Major championships this year. I got a lot of time off to get better, to be better physically, which has been the case all year,” Woods said after 36-holes at Royal Troon, where he finished at 14-over-par.
“I’ve gotten better, even though my results really haven’t shown it, but physically I’ve gotten better, which is great. I just need to keep progressing like that and then eventually start playing more competitively and start getting into kind of the competitive flow again.”
So what will Woods’ 2025 Major season look like? Five Golf Monthly writers have their say…
Nick Bonfield
Tiger Woods’ 2025 Major season will probably look very similar to this year.
As I understand it, his body is only strong enough to play five events a year. Unless that changes, he won’t contend in another Major. Every time you watch him, he’s so clearly lacking match fitness – he makes so many unforced errors and his touch on the greens has been horrendous at times.
But, as much as I want him to call it a day, he’s not going to. I can see him making another Masters cut, but I’d be surprised if he played the weekend at any of the other three Majors.
Jonny Leighfield
Very similar to 2024, I would imagine, unless he increases his competitive playing commitments and signs up for a couple of outings in the run-up to The Masters.
In between the three remaining Majors, Woods might well benefit from an additional tournament, too. He keeps saying he’s rusty, and and should be but with what everyone hopes to be an injury-free period now, a healthier Tiger should be capable of doing a little more.
Should that be the case, a couple more made cuts could be achieved and possibly even a top-25…
Michael Weston
No one can predict what 2025 will look like for Woods. Sure,…
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