Tiger Woods said his ailing left elbow is ‘good to go’ for the British Open, and he insisted Tuesday there’s no loss of confidence despite the longest stretch of his career without a major title. Woods held his regular session with the media ahead of the British Open at Muirfield, where he resumes his quest for a 15th major title. Once considered a lock to break Jack Nicklaus’ record, he hasn’t won one of golf’s biggest events since the 2008 US Open.
‘I feel very good about my game,’ Woods said. ‘I feel very, very good going into major championships. I’ve had a pretty good year this year so far - won four times. Even though I haven’t won a major championship in five years, I’ve been there in a bunch of them where I’ve had chances. I just need to keep putting myself there and eventually I’ll get some.’ The biggest question mark for Woods at this major is his health.
He strained his elbow at last month’s US Open, playing in visible pain while struggling to a 32nd-place finish. He hasn’t played since Merion, even skipping his own tournament to give the injury time to heal.’The elbow feels good,’ Woods said. ‘It’s one of the good things of taking the time off to let it heal and get the treatment and therapy on it.
The main reason was that coming over here, the ground is going to be hard, obviously. And I’m going to need that elbow to be good. And just in case the rough was, well, reports were it was going to be high, and it was going to be lush.