TIGER LIMPS INTO THE UNKNOWN

Struggling Woods withdrew from his first ever Maior leaving question marks over his future

- NEIL SQUIRES

TIGER WOODS departed Oklahoma yesterday to an uncertain future after his first-ever withdrawal from a Major.

For one of the most mentally strong and stubborn sportsmen of all time to throw in the towel before the final bell at the US PGA spoke volumes for the pain he is enduring 15 months on from the car crash that wrecked his right leg.

The US Open, the next event on Woods’s intended Major roadshow, starts on June 16 at Brookline in Massachusetts. Whether Woods will be there must now be open to doubt.

The experience was a sobering one for the American and his comeback plans.

It was not so much the round of golf which did for him, testing though the Southern Hills course was on an unseasonably cold Saturday, but everything else that he now needs to go through to be able to swing a club competitively.

The ice baths and the intense physiotherapy before and after his practice sessions and rounds all took their toll on his body.