Rory McIlroy has admitted he gave Tiger Woods COVID-19 ahead of his return to The Open Championship in July. Woods has been forced to revert to a part-time career on the PGA Tour, due to the effects of the injuries he sustained in a car accident in February 2021.
14 months on from his crash, the 15-time major champion made a fairytale return to Augusta for the Masters in April, before turning out at the PGA Championship a month later. Woods' most anticipated comeback though came at the 150th Open at St Andrews in July, the course in which he had won two of his three Claret Jugs.
His close friend and fellow player McIlroy however nearly caused havoc on the American star's return to Scotland, after the duo headed out to Ireland to play a couple of weeks before.
