Woods cut down

The world number one crashed to a second-round 74 for a five-over-par total of 145, missing the cut by one despite birdies at the 16th and 17th.

Not since 2004 has Woods has gone through a season without a major, but he knows he will have to play better than he did in Scotland as he said: "I just made mistakes. Obviously you can't make mistakes and expect to not only make the cut, but also try and win a championship. You have to play clean rounds of golf and I didn't."

Asked if it was the worst he could remember playing, Woods quickly retorted: "It was pretty bad at Winged Foot."

That was his one previous major missed cut and in that he had two rounds of 76 for a 12-over-par total that was three strokes too many to survive.

This time he shot 71-74 to miss out by one on five over.

The stretch that cost him came around the turn - tough holes at any time, but in wind and rain all the more demanding. Woods, one under for the day after a superb pitch set up a birdie on the long seventh, bogeyed the next two and then lost his ball off a wild drive down the 456-yard 10th.

That led to a double-bogey six, he dropped another shot two holes later and then had another double on the 13th.

"I was probably going to have to birdie the last four - that's what I thought," he added, although in that he was wrong. Three would have done it.

"The wind was blowing pretty good and you just had to hit good shots. But I was struggling there for a little bit - I hit two bad three woods in a row."