Tiger Woods’ own website condemned his performance in the first round of the Open at St Andrews as “barely respectable” in a brutally honest assessment of his day.
Woods returned to the scene of two of his most famous major triumphs this week to great anticipation, but the 46-year-old, who is still recovering from a serious car crash last year, struggled to produce anything like the form that won him the Claret Jug at the home of golf in the early 2000s.
