Tiger Woods has played in only six U.S. Opens, making the cut just three times. He last teed it up in America’s national championship four years ago, when he failed to make the weekend at Winged Foot during the pandemic.

As a just-short contender in 1999 and 2005, and with an injury absence in 2014, Tiger Woods’ dominance of the golf world somehow never extended to the Sandhills. Is it too late?

PINEHURST, N.C. – It’s become increasingly more difficult to contort reality enough to consider Tiger Woods a legitimate threat to win his fourth U.S. Open title this week, but if there is a major championship venue that could somehow, some way, resurrect the major magic, it would be Pinehurst.