The incredible Tiger Woods exchange with forgetful security at The Open revealed as golf icon thinks on his feet

Tiger Woods remains arguably the most recognised golfer in modern-day history.

But for one security guard on duty at an Open Championship, he clearly wasn't up to speed on the USA superstar in a brilliant exchange recaptured by PGA tour golfer Michael Kim. The 152nd Open at Royal Troon gets underway on Thursday and in the build up to the action getting underway, Kim revealed the tale and the big flex involved from Woods after forgetting his credentials.

Writing on X, the pro golfer wrote: "At the Open Championship, players get a clip as credentials to get you into the locker room and everywhere else. Mid 2000s, Tiger forgot his clip one day, and he was walking into the locker room when the security person stopped him asking for his credentials, lol. Tiger looks around, sees a massive billboard with his name and face on it, points to it, says that’s my credentials and walked into the locker room."

It comes as we told you the message of support Tiger sent Rory McIlroy in the wake of his US open nightmare. He joined the likes of Michael Jordan and Rafael Nadal in reaching out and admitted he knew the discomfort his pal had gone through during and afterwards. He said: “I just sent him a nice text. That was it. I waited a week before I sent it. I wanted to let it calm down.

"I know he was being besieged by a lot of different things going on and just let it cool down for a week. Just basically, as you know, I’m your friend. I know this is a difficult moment. We’ve all been there as champions. We all lose. Unfortunately, it just happened and the raw emotion of it, it’s still there. And it’s going to be there for, I’m sure, some time. The faster he’s able to get back on a horse and get back into contention, like he did last