Tiger Woods News Emerges Before US Open originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

Tiger Woods is not at Oakmont for the U.S. Open due to his ongoing recovery from Achilles surgery earlier this year - but the 15-time major champion has offered up some advice to the rest of the field

Woods' warning will be music to the ears of Rory McIlroy, who is one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour. With an average driving distance of 319.2 yards, the Northern Irishman sits third on the 2025 list behind Aldrich Potgieter and Niklas Norgaard.

Tiger Woods won't feature at the U.S. Open as he continues to recover from his ruptured Achilles tendon injury, which he suffered while practicing earlier this year

One of the first memories for the last man to make the field at this year's U.S. Open was watching Tiger Woods.In that respect, Chase Johnson has plenty of company. In another, he has none.On the 25-year anniversary of Woods' historic dismantling of Pebble Beach in the U.

When Woods hit an improbable shot on Pebble Beach’s 6th hole during his record-setting win, NBC’s Roger Maltbie uttered words synonymous with the victory—even 25 years later.

At the time, Tiger Woods’ ruthless march around Pebble Beach in the 2000 U.S. Open counted as a staggering feat, at once transcendent and historic. Twenty-five years later, it’s no less staggering, transcendent and historic.

A capsule look at key anniversaries this year for the U.S. Open, a list that includes Ben Hogan at Merion in 1950 and Tiger Woods at Pebble Beach in 2000.