Woods already confirmed to play in US Open

ALTHOUGH it remains unclear exactly when Tiger Woods will make his next competitive appearance, the world number will definitely play the US Open in June, having already submitted his entry for the event.

It has emerged the US Golf Association (USGA) had received Woods’ entry to tee-off in the season’s second major which gets underway on June 17 at the Pebble Beach Golf Links — scene of his first US Open triumph in 2000.

On that occasion, he posted a 12-under-par total of 272 to win by the extraordinary margin of 15 shots in an event that is often viewed as the toughest major of them all.