Tiger Woods takes positives despite worst major score

World number one Tiger Woods is focusing on taking the positives from his US Open performance despite posting his worst score ever at a major on Monday morning.

The 37-year-old's challenge was already effectively over before the final round and he ended 13 over after a 74 that included a triple-bogey on the second.

Despite his bad weekend, the American is adamant that there are a lot of good points to take from the tournament.

"It was a good week overall," Woods told Sky Sports News. "There's always a lesson to be learned in every tournament whether you win or lose. I'll look back at the things I did right and the things I did wrong.

"I did a lot of things right. Unfortunately I did a few things wrong, as well. I struggled with the speed all week. These greens are grainy. It's one of the older bent grasses creeping bent. I struggled with the speed, especially right around the hole. Putts were breaking a lot more. I gave it a little more break and then it would hang. That's kind of the way it was this week.

"I'm sorry that the golf wasn't what I would have liked but it was a fantastic atmosphere, the people were into it. Obviously there weren't as many people as some of the US Open sites, but this was I think more intimate. People were very close to you. Sometimes we get a lot of people, like at Bethpage, but they're so far away from us. Here, because the property is so small, I think the galleries were a little bit closer than they have been in most US Open sites."

Englishman Justin Rose held his nerve to win the title at Merion.