{"id":10103,"date":"2025-06-11T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tiger-woods-the-us-open-favors-long-hitters-and-short-irons\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:40:09","slug":"tiger-woods-the-us-open-favors-long-hitters-and-short-irons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/tiger-woods-the-us-open-favors-long-hitters-and-short-irons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods: The US Open favors long hitters and short irons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tiger Woods: Tips for the U.S. Open<\/h2>\n\nTiger Woods, golf legend with three U.S. Open victories, shared valuable advice on how to tackle the challenging Oakmont Country Club course.\n\nWoods, winner of the U.S. Open in 2000, 2002 and 2008, knows well the secrets to succeed in this tournament.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>At Oakmont, there&#8217;s no room for pretense. You have to hit the ball well. It favors long hitters because of the degrees and the complexes. It helps a lot to have shorter irons to attack the ball. It&#8217;s about missing the ball in the right places&#8230; because if not, it&#8217;s horrible!<\/p><cite>Tiger Woods<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Oakmont field has hosted the U.S. Open on nine occasions, the last in 2016.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/reel\/DKuWW87RhUy\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sun Day Red post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWoods, 49, underwent surgery on March 11 to repair a torn left Achilles tendon.\n\nThe last official tournament Woods participated in was the 2024 Open Championship, where he did not make the cut.\n\nWoods has dealt with health problems for a long time. He underwent his sixth back surgery last September and continues to deal with the consequences of the 2021 car accident.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods: Tips for the U.S. Open Tiger Woods, golf legend with three U.S. Open victories, shared valuable advice on how to tackle the challenging Oakmont Country Club course. Woods, winner of the U.S. Open in 2000, 2002 and 2008, knows well the secrets to succeed in this tournament. At Oakmont, there&#8217;s no room for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,3548,1401,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-10103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-oakmont","10":"tag-tiger-woods","11":"tag-u-s-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}