Oh Tiger.
Woods withdrew from the Farmers Insurance tournament on Thursday with what appeared to be yet another back injury.
Woods was not suffering from back pain, but from symptoms the star termed “Deactivated glutes.”
“It’s just my glutes are shutting off,” Woods told a makeshift media scrum in the parking lot as he packed up early at Torrey Pines. The first round was delayed more than two hours due to fog in the area, and after a couple false starts, Woods said, in essence, his butt got stiff. “Then they don’t activate and then, hence, it goes into my lower back. So, I tried to activate my glutes as best I could, in between, but they never stayed activated.”
Woods said he first started to feel pain in his ass while players waited for the official restart of the Farmers Insurance Open.
Woods could never his glutes “activated” so he bowed out.