PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods withdrew from the second spherical of the Genesis Invitational on Friday due to sickness.
Woods pulled out of the event after hitting his tee shot on the seventh gap at Riviera Nation Membership. He was taken off the course in a golf cart pushed by a event official. At one level, Woods put his head in his palms in frustration.
Rob McNamara, Woods’ good buddy and govt vp of TGR Ventures, mentioned in an announcement that Woods started struggling flu-like signs Thursday evening. On Friday morning, they have been worse. He was handled by physicians at Riviera.
“He had somewhat little bit of a fever and that was higher throughout the warm-up,” McNamara mentioned. “However then when he received on the market and was strolling and enjoying, he began feeling dizzy. Finally, the medical doctors are saying he is received probably some kind of flu and that he was dehydrated. He is been handled with an IV bag and he is doing a lot, significantly better.”
McNamara mentioned Woods’ again, which he had struggled with in Thursday’s opening spherical, was “advantageous.”
“It was all medical sickness, dehydration, which is now the signs are reversing themselves now that he is had an IV,” McNamara mentioned.
Two fireplace vans and an ambulance from the Pacific Palisades Fireplace Division arrived at Riviera simply earlier than 2 p.m. PT after a 911 name was made, and have been wanted as a result of no IVs have been out there on web site, sources advised ESPN. First responders spent greater than half-hour inside earlier than exiting and leaving the property.
At 3:43 p.m. PT, Woods exited the lads’s locker room at Riviera, strolling below his personal energy. He promptly entered a automotive pushed by his safety guard and left the grounds.
Woods battled again spasms in Thursday’s opening spherical and gave the impression to be having points along with his again once more Friday. The 15-time main champion has undergone 5 again surgical procedures throughout his profession.
Woods was making his first begin in an official PGA Tour occasion since he withdrew from the rain-delayed third spherical on the Masters in April. He was 1 over after six holes within the second spherical and a pair of over for the event.
It was a disappointing consequence for Woods, who was enjoying in his first official PGA Tour occasion in additional than 10 months, and one which he hosts and advantages his basis. As Woods, 48, neared the tip of the entrance 9, a few hundred followers have been ready for him on the ninth inexperienced. He by no means arrived. After information broke that Woods had withdrawn, followers began heading towards the exits.
It was an all-too-familiar feeling for Woods. Since returning to skilled golf after he suffered severe accidents in a automotive wreck outdoors Los Angeles in February 2021, Woods has withdrawn or missed the minimize in 4 of his six begins. His two finishes have been a tie for Forty fifth within the 2023 Genesis Invitational and a solo forty seventh within the 2022 Masters.
“My ankle would not damage anymore as a result of no bones are rubbing anymore,” Woods mentioned Wednesday. “However then once more, it is totally different. Different elements of my physique need to take the brunt of it. Similar to my again is fused so different elements of my physique have taken the brunt of that. I’ve two totally different physique elements that are actually fused. Yeah, different elements of the physique need to adapt.”
Friday marked the primary time he is pulled out of a event earlier than finishing 36 holes because the 2019 Northern Belief. It is solely the fourth time in his profession that he did not full not less than two rounds in a event.
On Thursday, Woods mentioned he hoped to play not less than one event a month if his physique would enable it. The Genesis would presumably be adopted by the Gamers Championship in March, Masters in April, PGA Championship in Could, U.S. Open in June and The Open in Scotland in July.
ESPN’s Paolo Uggetti contributed to this report.