Tiger Woods will not win the 2024 British Open. Tiger Woods probably won’t win another major at all. Tiger Woods, in all likelihood, will never win another tournament on the PGA Tour.
And Tiger Woods should still keep playing all of these tournaments as long as he damn well pleases.
Thursday at Royal Troon in the British Open presented the latest example of Tiger Woods in the 2020s, a legend long past his prime, hacking away far down the leaderboard, struggling to play his way into the weekend.
At this point, it’s nearly a fill-in-the-blank story: “After a promising start at the [insert major name here], Tiger Woods stumbled to a [finishing number over par] round that left him [a disturbingly large number] strokes off the lead.