Tiger Woods says he was so affected by the Donald Trump assassination try … he truly misplaced sleep over it — and he admitted it affected no less than a few of his preparation for this week’s big Open Championship.
{The golfing} legend instructed BBC Sport he realized of the capturing whereas on a airplane experience from the States to Scotland on Saturday.
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Woods mentioned he stayed up all evening on his abroad flight glued to the protection of the try on the previous President’s life … and it bothered him a lot, it impacted his follow spherical at Royal Troon on Sunday.
“I didn’t accomplish a lot because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” he mentioned, candidly. “It was a long night and that’s all we watched the entire time on the way over here.”
“I didn’t sleep at all on the flight, and then we just got on the golf course.”
Woods, in fact, is longtime buddies with No. 45 — they’ve golfed collectively a bunch through the years … and again in 2019, Trump awarded the golfer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, acknowledged as the best civilian award within the U.S.
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On the ceremony, Trump known as Woods a unprecedented athlete who’s “also a great guy.”
Unclear how prep went for Tiger on Monday and Tuesday in wake of the melancholy Sunday … though at a information convention to start out the week, he did seem like in considerably good spirits. On the presser, he instructed reporters he is been “busting it pretty hard in the gym” within the leadup to the most important occasion — one thing he hasn’t been capable of do a lot following his horrific 2021 automobile crash.
The tourney formally kicks off on Thursday … and Woods — a 15-time main winner — is taken into account by oddsmakers to be roughly a 200-1 longshot to win all of it.
