Tiger Woods has revealed he feels jaded before Thursday’s first round of The Open Championship because he missed out on a night’s sleep on his private jet to Royal Troon as he watched the fallout of the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump.
Trump, 78, was millimetres away from death after a bullet grazed his ear during a rally in Pennsylvania on the weekend.
Woods, who was on a flight from his Florida home when the news broke, was absorbed in coverage of the incident.
“I didn’t accomplish a lot because I wasn’t in the right frame of mind,” Woods told the BBC. “It was a long night [because of the assassination attempt] and that’s all we watched the entire time on the way over here. I didn’t sleep at all on the flight, and then we just got on the golf course.”
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