Three-time champion Tiger Woods will miss the 2023 Open Championship due to ankle surgery recovery

Tiger Woods will not compete at the Open Championship in Liverpool next month after he failed to recover from ankle surgery in time.

Woods has won the tournament three times before, including once in Hoylake.

Woods has 15 majors to his name but has been a notable absentee for much of the last few years after a string of serious and niggling injuries.

Woods has serial difficulties with his right leg, ankle and foot, and in February 2021 a severe car crash led to suggestions that he was lucky not to lose his leg.

He had a subtalar fusion on his right ankle in April in order to treat arthritis arising from an older fracture. With an expected recovery of three months, his chances of competing were slim, and he will now have to return in a different event.

He has been fit enough to compete at the Masters, PGA Championship and Open in 2022 but has played just nine official rounds after making the cut at the first two. In February he appeared at the Genesis Invitational, and also competed at the Masters, and made the cut in both tournaments.

During the Masters he was struggling with a limp and his surgery followed shortly afterwards.