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Tiger Woods as soon as skilled an awkward run-in with a security guard who failed to acknowledge {the golfing} icon and refused him entry to The Open Championship.

The legendary American golfer holds expensive his reference to the most important event, having secured the championship thrice, along with his closing Claret Jug triumph coming in 2006. At 49, Woods, who’s courting Vanessa Trump, is absent from The Open this week at Royal Portrush whereas he rehabilitates from an Achilles harm he suffered in March of this 12 months.

In current occasions, the 15-time main champion has endured a number of operations on his back and legs, limiting his appearances to a part-time schedule on the PGA Tour.

Woods’ most up-to-date look at an official PGA Tour competitors was at The Open final 12 months, the place, regardless of the excitement round his participation, he did not make the cut. That was his third straight missed cut at a main championship.

While his current struggles on the season’s concluding main persist, Woods’ fame as one of the event’s most profitable opponents stays intact.

However, even his iconic standing could not spare him from a considerably mortifying incident with a security officer at Royal Troon.

PGA skilled Michael Kim shared an entertaining story from a previous event during Woods’ heyday that befell in Scotland. “At the Open Championship, players get a clip as credentials to get you into the locker room and everywhere else,” Kim revealed final 12 months on X.

“Mid 2000s, Tiger forgot his clip one day, and he was walking into the locker room when the security person stopped him asking for his credentials. Tiger looks around, sees a massive billboard with his name and face on it, points to it, says, ‘That’s my credentials,’ and walked into the locker room.”

After failing to make the cut final 12 months, Woods acknowledged his efficiency shortcomings, confessing: “It wasn’t very good. I made a double there at two, and I was just fighting it all day. I never really hit it close enough to hit birdies, and I made a lot of bogeys.

“I’d have appreciated to have performed more, however I simply wished to make sure I used to be in a position to play the most important championships. I’ve obtained a lot of time off to get higher bodily, which has been the case all 12 months.

“I’ve gotten better even though my results haven’t shown it, but physically I’ve gotten better, which is great. I need to keep progressing like that and eventually start playing more competitively and start getting into the competitive flow again.”