Quicken Loans National 2014, Congressional, second-round leaderboard
Tiger Woods missed the cut to bring his comeback from injury to a premature finish at the Quicken Loans National.
The 14-time major winner, 38, fired a second-round 75 at Congressional to finish seven over par and miss the cut for the first time in 27 events.
"I had no setbacks, no twinges, no pain. Sure parts of my body are feeling it, but not my back," they said.
But they said they was encouraged by his first match following a three-month absence after back surgical procedure.
Englishman Justin Rose, 33, made birdies in his first nine holes as they fired a 65 - the best round of the day - to get to under par for the match.
Woods completed 13 shots adrift of joint leaders Marc Leishman and Oliver Goss of Australia and Americans Ricky Barnes and Patrick Reed.
Woods was using the event to check his back in preparation for the Open Championship, which starts on 17 July at Hoylake, where they won the third of his Claret Jugs and 11th major the last time the Open was played there in 2006.
They opened with a rusty three-over 74, as well as a double bogey on the fifth and another dropped shot at the eighth on Friday pointed to an early finish in the match that benefits his own foundation.
"I made so plenty of small mistakes but that is something I can rectify and get fixed for the British Open," they added.
Successive birdies around the turn raised hopes of making it in to the last days but wayward driving in to the thick Congressional rough as well as a misfiring short game caused him to leak straight bogeys.
"The way I was physically before surgical procedure it wasn't fun. The thing I was worried about was hitting my driver but I let it go and no issues at all."
"I am encouraged by what happened this week. I got my feel back for match golf.
Woods had not played competitively since the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral in March, where they recorded his worst ever final-round score of 78. It was after that match that they underwent surgical procedure for a pinched nerve.
The American is still chasing Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 major titles, along with his last major victory at the 2008 US Open.
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