• Players Championship, Round Four

Woods withdraws with neck injury

ESPN staff
May 9, 2010
Tiger Woods will hope to be back to full fitness for the start of the US Open at Pebble Beach on June 17 © Getty Images
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Tiger Woods has pulled out of the final round at the Players Championship in Florida with a neck injury.

The American had already started his fourth round and was two-over through six holes and two-under for the tournament before deciding to withdraw.

Woods sliced a wild drive well right off the seventh tee and called for an official immediately. The world No. 1 played his recovery shot back to the fairway but grimaced with pain - in a scene reminiscent of his final round efforts at the 2008 US Open - before shaking hands with playing partner Jason Bohn before departing on a golf cart.

After receiving treatment in the physio's trailer, the world No. 1 revealed he had been suffering with the injury since before he returned to action at Augusta last month.

"I've been playing with a bad neck for quite a while," Woods said. "They want me to go get a picture on it next week. I might have a bulging disc.

"I've been playing through it. I can't play through it any more. I'm having a hard time with the pain - there's tingling down my fingers.

"Setting up over the ball is fine, but once I start making the motion it's downhill from there."

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