Tigers Woods in Tears As Doctors Reveals He Will no longer Participate in any Sport due to…
These things are the result of recency bias joining forces with a sports idol and the overabundance of media that exists today.As a result, anyone born after the Baby Boomer age is likely to believe that something has never been done if Tiger Woods hasn’t done it.
That’s the reason so many people are now aware of the Special Exemption, which has nothing to do with transferable student debt or even the tax rules.
Tiger received an exemption into this year’s U.S. Open, which will be held on the iconic No. 2 course in the North Carolina town of Pinehurst, from June 13–16, from the U.S. Golf Association last week. The headline made veteran spectators and the ever-optimistic following of Tiger fans pause.
Out of the four majors, only the Masters and PGA Championship allow previous winners lifelong access. However, they do have the right to give a prior winner a “ahem” if their game starts to border on embarrassing.
Although local and regional qualifiers are how around one-third of the 156-player field for the U.S. Open gets in (this is what makes it “Open”), the Open offers other qualifying paths, including a 10-year exemption for the event winner, for the more experienced players.
Tiger’s 2008 U.S. Open title exemption expired in 2018, but his 2019 Masters triumph let him to keep his automatic entrance for a another five years, which got him through the 2023 U.S. Open—which he missed for the third time in a row because of persistent health problems.
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