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USA Today
11-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Tiger Woods injury update: Achilles surgery forces golf star to miss 2025 Masters
Tiger Woods injury update: Achilles surgery forces golf star to miss 2025 Masters Show Caption Hide Caption Joe Highsmith calls the Masters 'the most incredible place on earth' Joe Highsmith won the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches, a victory that earned him his first-ever invitation to the Masters. Tiger Woods had recently been ramping up his training regimen in an effort to play in the 2025 Masters. However, he appears to have pushed himself a bit too far. On Tuesday, March 11, less than one month away from the start of the tournament, Woods announced that he had undergone surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg. Although Woods has not played in a PGA Tour event since the 2024 Open last summer, there was still hope that he'd be able to make it to the Masters, a tournament he has only missed once since 2018 (2021). Woods had previously expressed intent to play in the 2025 Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, but was forced to withdraw just days before the competition after his mother passed away. Golf News: Scottie Scheffler dishes on the challenge of being the No. 1 player in the world Tiger Woods injury update Woods ruptured his Achilles while training. Woods has undergone numerous surgeries over the past several years, and even had one as recently as September 2024, when he underwent back surgery. How long will Woods be out? It's unclear at this time, but a similar Achilles injury happened to fellow golfer Bernhard Langer in February last year. He returned just three months later and even won a tournament, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, that November. While Langer (67) is much older than Woods (49), Woods' injury history and the injury itself are much more serious, which makes a three-month timetable rather aggressive, according to Golfweek's Cameron Jourdan. Jourdan explains that while Langer tore his Achilles, Woods ruptured it, meaning the tendon is fully severed. Tiger Woods: A list of Tiger Woods' injuries through the years
USA Today
03-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
A day after his 59, Jake Knapp cools off but still leads 2025 Cognizant Classic
A day after his 59, Jake Knapp cools off but still leads 2025 Cognizant Classic PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Perhaps the only thing harder than shooting a 59 on the PGA Tour is to back that score up the next day. Jake Knapp made history in Thursday's first round of the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches when he became just the 14th player to shoot 59 or better on the PGA Tour. How historic is this? Almost as many men have walked on the moon (12) than shot a 59 or below on the PGA Tour. Knapp knew it wasn't going to be an easy round Friday, and it wasn't. His 59th shot came when he two-putted for double bogey on the sixth hole (his 15th) of the Champion course. By then, his four-shot lead at PGA National had evaporated. But he birdied his last hole for a 1-under 70 and a one-shot lead over Matthieu Pavon, which earned Knapp a different kind of history: He became the first player to lead a PGA Tour event after 36 holes without shooting a round in the 60s. The last to do it was Jim Furyk, who shot 72-59 at the 2013 BMW Championship to tie for the lead. 'I've never had to follow up a 59 at a tournament before,' said Knapp, whose lone PGA Tour victory came last year in Mexico. 'It's all new to me. Obviously, yesterday was picture-perfect; everything was going exactly where I wanted it to. And my distance control was really good.' Knapp opened with a birdie on the 10th hole, his 13th in 19 holes, but didn't make another birdie until making one at the third hole. He added another birdie at the fourth hole to extend his lead to two shots. But Knapp's tee ball at the tough sixth hole found the water, leading to the double bogey that cost him the lead to Pavon. 'Today I struggled a little bit with my distance,' said Knapp, who worked as a bouncer while struggling on mini-tours. 'I felt like I was still swinging well. It just seemed like the ones that were teetering kind of teetered the wrong way.' Pavon, a Frenchman who's a member at Dye Preserve in Jupiter, came out red-hot Friday. He eagled his first hole (the par-5 10th) and added birdies on the next two holes to move into contention. He added five more birdies and two bogeys for a 7-under 64 to move to 12-under 130. 'Tenth hole was the perfect start, the dream start,' Pavon said. 'I think it was playing a little bit tougher, the pins were a little trickier. But we've had two beautiful days here, which is unbelievable.' While Knapp was stuck in the Jake Parr show, a familiar name – Jupiter's Daniel Berger – climbed the leaderboard. Berger who has almost won the tournament twice – he lost a playoff to Padraig Harrington in 2015 and seven years later, lost a five-shot lead entering the final round (when Sepp Straka won) – shot 68, but that included a 37 on the back nine. He was fortunate to bogey the par-4 11th when his approach landed in the muck just short of the green. 'I just kind of lost a little steam on the back nine,' said Berger, also a Dye Preserve member. 'I don't know if I didn't eat enough food, but I started to feel a little bit off there. Hit a bad 9-iron (at No. 11), plugged it in the hazard, and I actually got away with one just to make a bogey there. It could have been a lot worse. To be right there with a chance on the weekend is kind of what you're looking for.' Berger is tied for third place at 11-under 131 with Michael Kim (66), Doug Ghim (63) and Jesper Svensson (67). Rickie Fowler, the 2017 champ, also was making a move until he double bogeyed the par-3 15th. He's tied for seventh at 10-under 132 with Taylor Montgomery (65) and Zach Johnson (66). 'Really just one swing that cost me two today,' Fowler said. 'It was kind of just a funky number, and with a left pin, I tried hitting kind of a soft 6-iron in there and just really didn't move through it well, kind of came out of it in a way.' The Champion course, usually a monster, has become softer than a middle brownie. The scoring average in the second round was about a shot higher than Thursday, but at 69.0 after two rounds, the field is headed for one of the lowest scoring averages in the tournament's 53-year history. The cut came at 5-under 137, matching Mark Wilson's winning score at PGA National in 2007. The Champion course has been made docile by light winds, soft greens, overseeded Ryegrass that has made the fairways wider and the chipping more predictable. But Shane Lowery, runner-up to Straka in 2022, is only six back, believes the Champion will throw some counter punches the final two rounds. 'There's a lot of golf to play this weekend, and I think even I've seen this morning the course is firming up, and it will firm up as the week goes on and it won't be as easy,' Lowery said. 'I'm very happy the position I'm in.' So is Knapp. He knows that less than half the players who shot 59 or lower failed to win the tournament (5-of-14). He got away with a so-so round Friday. He won't have that luxury the next two days. 'You can't really overdo it on this course,' Knapp said. 'You can't overpower it or anything like that. Just got to take what it gives you. I'm sure we'll have some wind tomorrow afternoon. Just try to give myself as many birdie looks as I can and just play good, boring golf.'
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Joe Highsmith earns first PGA TOUR win at Cognizant Classic
In the final round of the 2025 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Joe Highsmith shoots a 7-under 64 to claim his first PGA TOUR victory.
USA Today
03-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Jake Knapp says the shot that led to muddy triple bogey is not 'going to haunt me'
Jake Knapp says the shot that led to muddy triple bogey is not 'going to haunt me' He shot 59 on Thursday. He was just 1 under on his round Friday but still led the tournament. After 54 holes, he was leading and angling to be the first wire-to-wire winner at PGA National since 1996. But on Sunday, Jake Knapp's "only bad swing of the day" led to a sloppy mess of a triple bogey on the 11th hole at the 2025 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches and knocked him down off his perch atop the leaderboard. Hitting his second over water on the par-4 hole, Knapp came up short, his ball ending up half-submerged in the lake fronting the green. From there, he needed three shots to get on the putting surface, where he then two-putted for a 7. Knapp would par his final seven holes to end up in a tie for sixth at 15 under, four back of tournament winner Joe Highsmith. "I think I played super solid. I mis-hit the one shot on 11 and that was kind of the only thing I'd really take back. It would have been nice to make some more putts, but the pins were more challenging today," a composed Knapp said after his round. "We had the goal of just fairways and greens and two-putt the heck out of it, birdie all the par-5s and figured that would be enough, and if I did that, I would have been tied. Just bummed about 11. It was really the only bad swing of the day." He then explained his thinking ahead of trying to hit out of the water's edge. "Could see kind of the top quarter of the ball, figured I could just kind of blast it out for the most part, and didn't hit any of them really hard enough, unfortunately," he said, admitting that he never really considered going back and dropping to hit his fourth. "I just think in the moment, even now, I don't take it back. It's just one of those shots you just have to end up hitting a little bit harder than I did." Knapp said his historic Thursday round will "hold a special place in my heart," but it's that second shot on 11 that'll also be what he remembers about his week. "I'll think about the 59, obviously, but it's not that that shot is going to haunt me or anything like that, but for the most part I'm really happy with how I hit it and felt like I just played super solid today except for just one hole."
NBC Sports
03-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
HLs: Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches, Rd. 4
Watch the action from the final round of the 2025 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.
