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Rory McIlroy Says He Believes He Gave Tiger Woods COVID-19 Ahead of 2022 British Open

Rory McIlroy said he gave Tiger Woods COVID-19 ahead of The Open at St. Andrews this past season.

McIlroy and Woods played together at the JP McManus Pro-Am in Ireland over a week before the British major in July. McIlroy first felt some symptoms during the round, but he said things got much worse two days later, as he explained to Paul Kimmage of the Independent (h/t ESPN):

"I slept for maybe two hours and the sweat was just pouring off me, then [his wife] Erica took my temperature and it was sky high.