Tiger Woods misses the cut at third consecutive major

Tiger Woods missed the cut at another major this week when he failed to make weekend play at the 152nd Open Championship on Friday.

It is the third consecutive major in which Woods has missed the cut after also failing to do so at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open earlier this year.

This is just the second time in his career that Woods has missed the cut in three consecutive majors, having previously done so back in 2015.

Even more alarming for Woods is that he has either missed the cut or withdrawn from six of his past seven majors.

Woods finished 14-over through the first two rounds with a projected cut line of of four over.

When he left the course on Friday he was ahead of only four other golfers in the tournament.

While the golf legend completed all four majors this year, he did not finish higher than 60th in any of them. After making the cut for a record 24th consecutive year at the Masters (his 60th-place finish) earlier this year, Woods has failed to make the cut in the PGA's remaining majors and competed in just one other tour event.

If there is a positive to take from this run, this is the first time since 2019 that Woods has competed in all four majors in a single year. He just did not get the results he was looking for. Or that golf fans are used to seeing from him.

Given his age, injury concerns and staggering lack of success his future in the sport is now going to be up for even more debate than it already was heading into The Open.

Despite his recent struggles he remains one of the biggest names in golf and a gigantic draw at any tournament he plays in.

But when all-time greats start to slow down and show that they are human, there is always going to be talk and speculation as to when they should retire. Woods has started to hear those whispers, including from a fellow competitor this past week when Colin Montgomerie suggested it was past time for Woods to retire.

Woods fired back by saying that "as a past champion, I'm exempt until I'm 60."

He then went on to chastise Montgomerie.

"Colin's not. He's not a past champion, so he's not exempt. So he doesn't get the opportunity to make that decision," Woods said. "I do."

Woods is correct. Nobody gets to make that decision other than him. This is also not a situation in which an aging, declining player is dragging down or holding back a team. The only person impacted, here, is Woods himself. If he is willing to take that risk and get those results there is nobody else who can tell him he should not do it. There is also nothing that that he is going to do at this point on the golf course that is going to take away from his past success or legacy within the sport.