Tiger Woods shoots worst career round at PGA Championship, will assess playing final round

TULSA, Okla. — After carding one of his worst scores at a major in the third round of the 104th PGA Championship on Saturday, Tiger Woods said he would assess whether to play the final 18 holes because of pain in his surgically repaired right leg.

«Well, I'm sore. I know that is for a fact,» Woods told a pool reporter. «We'll do some work and see how it goes.»

With temperatures dropping into the mid-50s, rain falling and winds howling at Southern Hills Country Club, conditions were difficult for nearly everyone in the third round. But especially Woods, 46, who is playing in just his second tour event since he was seriously hurt in a car crash in February 2021.

After making five consecutive bogeys in a major for only the second time (along with the first round of the 1996 U.S. Open), Woods made his only birdie of the round with a 37-foot putt on the par-4 15th. He carded a 9-over 79, his worst career score at the PGA Championship, and was 12 over after 54 holes.

Woods scratched and clawed his way to avoid missing the cut Friday and then said he hoped to go low Saturday to get himself back into contention. But Woods had to play well over the final five holes of the third round to escape shooting 80 in a major for just the third time in his storied career.

«I couldn't get off the bogey train there, or other train too,» Woods said. «I just didn't do anything right. I didn't hit many good shots. Consequently, I ended up with a pretty high score.»

When the 15-time major champion returned to the tour for the first time in nearly 17 months at the Masters in April, he posted his worst score at Augusta National, 6-over 78, in each of the last two rounds. The endurance and strength in his surgically repaired right leg again seemed