US Open golf winner Matt Fitzpatrick

The defending champion is Matt Fitzpatrick. Image: US Open website

US Open at LA Country Club: Tiger is out but when is it?

The year’s third Major – the US Open at LA Country Club – will still gain huge attention despite the absence of the injured Tiger Woods.

US Open golf winner Matt Fitzpatrick

The defending champion is Matt Fitzpatrick. Image: US Open website

The year’s third Major – the US Open at LA Country Club – will still gain huge attention despite the absence of the injured Tiger Woods.

The third Major of the year is less than a month away.

The US Open will be played at Los Angeles Country Club from June 15-18 while Royal Liverpool hosts The 151st Open Championship from July 20-23.

Jon Rahm won the year’s first Major before Brooks Koepka won his fifth Major at the PGA Championship.

Woods has officially withdrawn from next month’s US Open at Los Angeles Country Club.

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Woods pulled out of the Masters during the third round in April, saying at the time it was due to plantar fasciitis.

However, the 47-year-old then had a subtalar fusion procedure in New York to address the problem caused by a previous fracture of his talus, a bone in the ankle joint.

TIGER WOODS OUT OF US OPEN

The 15-time major winner did not contest last week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill and the USGA confirmed he will also miss the US Open while announcing that 33 more players are now exempt for the year’s third major.

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Twenty five of those players earned their place courtesy of being ranked in the world’s top 60, including world number 18 Tyrrell Hatton and major winners Patrick Reed and Jason Day.

Woods feared his leg would have to be amputated due to the serious injuries he suffered in a car accident in Los Angeles in February 2021.

Will the GOAT play again?

He made a remarkable return to action 14 months later and finished 47th in the Masters, but withdrew from the PGA Championship following a third-round 79 and skipped the US Open before missing the cut in the 150th Open at St Andrews.

Woods will hope to defy the odds to compete in July’s Open at Royal Liverpool, where he won a third Open title in 2006 in his first tournament since the death of his father Earl two months earlier.

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Jon Rahm Masters
Spain’s Jon Rahm won The Masters by four strokes after shooting a three-under-par final round 69 at Augusta National. Photo: Twitter @TheMasters

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