Tiger Woods won’t be able to play at the British Open at Royal Liverpool next month as he continues to recover from surgery.

In April, Woods pulled out of the third round of the Masters because he was hurt, and he won’t be back in time for the British Open.

Woods said he got plantar fasciitis at the Masters. The 47-year-old then had a subtalar fusion procedure in New York to fix a problem caused by a broken bone in his ankle joint.

The 15-time major winner didn’t play in the US PGA Championship at Oak Hill in May or the US Open at Los Angeles Country Club this week.

In 2006, Woods won his third British Open title at Royal Liverpool. It was his first tournament since his father Earl died two months before.

But the people in charge of the British Open have said that Woods will not be coming back to the Hoylake course in July.

“We have been advised that Tiger won’t be playing at Royal Liverpool,” an R&A spokesman said.

“We wish him all the best with his recovery.”

Woods didn’t make the cut in last year’s 150th British Open at St. Andrews.

The question of whether he will come back to golf will be looked at even more closely now that he has dropped out of the latest event.

Woods said before this year’s Masters that it might be his last chance to play at Augusta National.

Due to the serious injuries he got in a car accident in Los Angeles in February 2021, he was afraid that he would have to have his leg cut off.

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