Padraig Harrington has claimed Tiger Woods is just not carried out with profitable majors simply but, regardless of the icon’s harm woes.
Woods has solely made three aggressive appearances up to now this yr with all of them coming at majors after he made his spectacular return to the course 14 months after his horror automobile crash.
Because the golf legend continues to battle with the accidents he sustained within the accident, he just lately hinted that he might solely play golf’s most prestigious occasions subsequent yr too.
Padraig Harrington (left) has claimed Tiger Woods (proper) is just not carried out with profitable majors
Nonetheless, Harrington believes that could be all Woods must be victorious once more as he claimed the 15-time main champion can win one other if he can simply get to the ultimate 9 holes.
‘In case you’ve gotten in competition with 9 holes to go, he’ll be there,’ Harrington mentioned on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership upfront of this weekend’s PNC Championship, the place Woods is competing together with his son, Charlie. ‘The resilience is there. Every thing about him. So I would not be second-guessing that half.
‘He is struggling to stroll. Tiger, if you will get him to the final 9 holes of a event, I do not suppose you are going to have an issue.
The 15-time main winner made his sensational return and made the reduce on the Masters in April
‘And he seemed good bodily. He seemed higher at that match. I am not saying he “could possibly be,” I truly consider he will probably be a hazard. I believe he’ll win one other main. I genuinely suppose he will probably be in competition. I am certain he needs each event he might play, if it is like a significant, he’ll have an opportunity.’
‘You’d by no means run Tiger off,’ Harrington mentioned, drawing from the 2 hours he watched Woods play in a 10-hole made-for-TV exhibition final weekend. ‘However I truly suppose he could be … in a greater place than I had thought.
‘There’s two issues that make a golfer – how gifted they’re and the way resilient they’re,’ Harrington added Thursday after storms washed out the PNC Championship pro-am.
The Irishman kisses the Claret Jug after profitable the Open Championship in 2007
‘Normally you get very gifted, not very resilient; otherwise you get very resilient and never very gifted. Tiger, by his entire profession, has each of these, which could be very uncommon.
‘So I’d by no means doubt.’
What impressed him from watching 10 holes within the match final week was the velocity Woods confirmed in his swing, which he thought was sufficient energy to maintain up with at the moment’s technology and to a minimum of get him to the again 9.
‘The little bit of additional velocity will assist him as a result of within the first 63 holes … you already know, who would need to be coming down the stretch towards Tiger?’ Harrington mentioned. ‘You realize he is able to doing something at that stage. I believe he is in a greater place to get himself into that final 9 holes.’
Harrington’s beliefs wildly differed from Colin Montgomerie’s because the Scot claimed Woods ought to have retired at The Open in July.
Colin Montgomerie claimed the legend ought to have known as it quits at The Open in July
Woods’s former rival claimed his stroll up the 18th at St. Andrews was the right second for the 15-time main champion to convey the curtain down on his glittering profession.
‘That was the time,’ Montgomerie informed golf web site Bunkered. ‘Stand on that bridge, begin waving, and everybody goes, ‘So, is that it?’ Yeah, it’s. It might have been a wonderful strategy to go.
‘The stands had been full, the world’s TV cameras – from all continents – had been on him, he is strolling up there on his personal, tears had been in his eyes, clearly, you possibly can’t beat that stroll.
Woods lifted his cap in acknowledgement of the followers in an emotional scene up the 18th
‘I’ve carried out it myself. When the stands are full, you can not beat that stroll. … I let you know what, that could be a particular, particular enviornment. It is a theatre. That was the time for Tiger to say, ‘OK, I bow out.’
‘Why go on? Exit on the prime,’ Montgomerie added. ‘It is one thing that only a few can do.’
Woods was concerned in a single-car crash in February 2021, which left him with severe accidents to his proper leg and left docs considering it might need to be amputated, in keeping with Woods.
He made the reduce at each the Masters and the PGA Championship however was compelled to withdraw from the latter after the third spherical as he struggled together with his accidents.
Woods missed the reduce by 9 photographs at The Open however his stroll up the notorious 18th fairway was nonetheless an iconic scene.
He was in a single-car crash in February 2021, which left him with severe accidents to his leg
On the finish of his second spherical, whereas he didn’t cease on the famed Swilcan Bridge, he did carry his cap in acknowledgement of the followers and their standing ovation.
Woods was additionally slated to play within the Hero World Problem, an occasion which he hosted within the Bahamas firstly of the month, however withdrew the Monday earlier than, citing plantar fasciitis.
He’s additionally set to tee it up on the PNC Championship this weekend together with his son Charlie, 13, of their third look on the occasion.
