Tiger Woods Withdrew From the 2022 PGA Championship Due to a Screw Piercing His Skin

Like this year's Masters, Woods made the cut at Southern Hills but failed to finish 72 holes.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods withdrew from the Masters on Sunday prior to the resumption of the third round, citing a recurrence of plantar fasciitis that plagued him late last year.

Woods has said that he had a couple of surgeries last year after returning to play from a serious car crash in February 2021 and on Sunday Jason Day revealed the source of one of them.

A screw in his ankle or foot pierced the skin, causing him to withdraw from the PGA Championship last year at Southern Hills.

“I was talking to him at the end of last year, and then he was saying the reason why he pulled out of the PGA was a screw went through the skin on Saturday or whatever it was," Day said after his final round. “I don't know how bad it is this time ... once again, it just sucks that he’s not here playing."

Woods finished 47th at the Masters last year, then returned five weeks later at the PGA Championship, where he rallied to make the cut on Friday but suffered through cold and windy conditions during the third round, shooting 78. He withdrew that night and ended up not playing in the U.S. Open.

The reason is likely due to what Day described as happening, leading to a surgery or procedure. Woods then returned at the British Open in July and missed the cut.

Late in the year, Woods was scheduled to play in the Hero World Championship but withdrew due to plantar fasciitis which he said developed in part from ramping up to play but also was related to the issues he had with his right foot.

“I wasn’t expecting to have a few more procedures because of playing, but that’s just the way it goes," Woods said in December.

Woods played the Genesis Invitational in February and made the cut before finishing in a tie for 45th. He made the cut on the number at the Masters, tying a record with 23 in a row set by Gary Player and Fred Couples.

The next time he’d want to likely play is the PGA Championship at Oak Hill in Rochester, N.Y., May 18-21. The latest setback puts that in question.