Tiger Woods skipped the US Open to avoid missing 'historic' British Open

Woods has won The Open three times, twice at St. Andrews

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Woods spoke about the decision to reporters on Tuesday during a press conference

citing issues with his leg which was injured in a car crash in February 2021.

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"The plan was to play the U.S. Open, but physically I was not able to do that," Woods said, via ESPN

"There's no way physically I could have done that.

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I had some issues with my leg and it would have put this tournament in jeopardy, and so there's no reason to do that."

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