• Tiger Woods will not play at next week’s US Open.
• The 46-year-old says his body needs more time to get stronger for major championship golf.
• Woods still plans to compete at The Open Championship at St Andrews next month after missing the US PGA Championship.

Tiger Woods has affirmed he won’t play at the following week’s US Open, yet at the same time intends to contend at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews one month from now.

It follows the 15-time significant victor’s withdrawal from the US PGA Championship in May after three rounds.

“I won’t contend in the US Open as my body needs additional opportunity to get more grounded for significant title golf,” Woods, 46, said on Twitter.

Nonetheless, the occasion will incorporate players from the LIV Golf Invitational Series.

The US Open starts on 16 June in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Woods added: “I in all actuality do trust and want to be prepared to play in Ireland at the JP McManus Pro-Am and at The Open one month from now. I’m eager to get back out there soon.”

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The veteran American got back to contest at the Masters in April, 14 months after a serious fender bender, from which he must be “removed from the disaster area” by firemen and paramedics.

The seriousness of Woods’ wounds saw him leave on a drawn out, difficult experience to recuperation and at first brought up issues about whether he would try and have the option to contend again at the most significant level.

He played his third most terrible round in a significant at the US PGA Championship last month, with a nine-more than 79, that left him joint keep going on 12 over.

He likewise made five back to back intruder without precedent for a significant since turning proficient in 1996.

On Monday, Woods’ extraordinary adversary Phil Mickelson was added to the field for the principal occasion in the Greg Norman-upheld LIV Golf Invitational Series, which happens in Hertfordshire and starts on Thursday.

In a meeting with the Washington Post, Norman said Woods had been offered a “mind-blowingly tremendous” arrangement to participate in the series.

Players partaking in the LIV Golf Invitational will be permitted to participate in the US Open, the United States Golf Association (USGA) has dominated.

There had been inquiries over the issue, as the PGA Tour has compromised authorizes and boycotts against players pursuing the Saudi-supported LIV Golf series.

Be that as it may, the majors are not run by the PGA Tour, with the US Open being organized by the USGA.

The USGA said its capability measures was set preceding sections opening recently and that it wouldn’t be fitting or fair for the individuals who have procured a spot to change those standards.

It said: “In regards to players who might decide to play in London [at the LIV event] this week, we just posed ourselves this inquiry – should a player who had procured his direction into the 2022 US Open, by means of our distributed field models, be pulled out of the field because of his choice to play in another occasion?

“Furthermore, we at last concluded that they shouldn’t.”