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

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 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

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

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.

On the 25-year anniversary of Woods' historic dismantling of Pebble Beach in the U.S. Open — a milestone win that some thought might puncture golf's stereotype as a sport for rich, white men — Chase Johnson is the only player of Black heritage in the 156-man field at Oakmont.

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.