Tiger Woods misses the cut AGAIN as golf legend crashes out of The Open in another major nightmare at Royal Troon

Tiger Woods has missed another cut at a major tournament.Woods is all but guaranteed to be out at the ongoing Open Championship at Royal Troon after posting a +14 over the first two days of the event, where the projected cut line sits at +5. His dismal Friday included a double bogey on the second hole as well as bogeys on the fifth, ninth, 12th, 14th and 17th. He finished Friday with a 77 (+6) after his 78 (+8) on Thursday. Despite his struggles, though, Woods still had a packed gallery and received large ovations throughout the first two rounds.The 48-year-old now intends to take a months-long break from golf, telling reporters on Friday at Royal Troon that he will return at the Hero World Challenge in December. Asked if he would play next year’s Open at Royal Portrush, Woods answered: ‘Definitely.”I’ve always loved playing major championships. I just wish I was more physically sharp coming into the majors,’ Woods said after his round. ‘Obviously it tests you mentally, physically, emotionally, and I just wasn’t as sharp as I needed to be.’ Despite his struggles, Woods remained optimistic about his game and his health. ‘I’d like to have played more, but I just wanted to make sure that I was able to play the major championships this year,’ Woods said. ‘I got a lot of time off to get better, to be better physically, which has been the case all year.’I’ve gotten better, even though my results really haven’t shown it, but physically I’ve gotten better, which is great. I just need to keep progressing like that and then eventually start playing more competitively and start getting into kind of the competitive flow again.’So far this year Woods has missed the cut at the PGA Championship at the Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky and the US Open at North Carolina’s Pinehurst No. 2. Woods, who continues to battle injuries, was similarly awful at the Masters, finishing +16 which included a ghastly 82 in his third round. His early exit at Royal Troon follows a contentious exchange with retired player and announcer Colin Montgomerie, who questioned the golf legend’s presence at the tournament. Montgomerie said in an interview in The Times last Saturday that Woods’s best days are behind him. From there, Montgomerie shared his memory of seeing Woods struggling at Pinehurst last month and wondering: ‘What the hell is he doing?’