US PGA Championship: Tiger Woods says playing a major with no fans & # 039; an unknown & # 039;
Tiger Woods celebrated winning his 15th major last year – but there won't be fans on the American PGA this weekend August 6-9 Location: TPC Harding Park, San Francisco Coverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and text updates to the BBC Sports website over the four days
Tiger Woods has said he played for no fans at the US PGA Championship will enter the unknown.
The event at TPC Harding Park, withdrawn from May due to the coronavirus pandemic, is the first major of 2020.
Woods, 44 , won the WGC-American Express Championship in 2005, and said the "electric" atmosphere before his playoff with John Daly left h I'm "half deaf".
"This is going to be very different," said the American. "But it is still a big one so there will be a lot of energy."
Relatively cold, humid conditions are predicted for the San Francisco event, and Woods knows the area well, often playing there as a junior and while at Stanford University.
Besides his 2005 victory in Harding Park, the only other occasion was that the 15-time winner won the course as a professional. in 2009, he won all five of his games while the US won the Presidents Cup.
"It's going to play longer," he added. "It is heavy air, whether the wind blows or not. The ball does not fly far here.
" This will be a fun test for all of us. The rough is up and fairways are much narrower than in 2009. "
Woods celebrated" quite some time "after ending his 11-year drought due to winning the Masters in April 2019 and missed the cut five weeks later when he returned to the US PGA, when Brooks Koepka retained his title.
After being out for five months due to an injury and the pandemic, Woods has played only one event since closing and finished in shared 40th place on the Memorial Tournament last
But when he asked if he could win the US PGA the same number of fifth times for a record, he said, "Of course. I feel fine. I didn't play much competitively, but I played a lot at home, so I got a lot of reps that way.
"I'm really excited about some of the changes I've made. I'm just trying to get back in this part of the season.
"This is what I have been preparing for. We have a lot of big events from here so I'm looking forward to it. "
