Tiger Woods will not be within the subject for The Gamers Championship subsequent week on the TPC Sawgrass, the ultimate 12 months of his exemption from profitable the 2019 Masters.
The choice was not shocking, particularly when Woods mentioned after a TMRW Golf League match earlier this week that it was solely the third time he had performed since his mom, Kultida, died abruptly on February 4.
Two of these occasions had been at TGL. The opposite was with President Donald Trump on February 9. He additionally performed within the Seminole Professional-Member on Monday.
“That is the third time I’ve touched a membership since my mother handed, so I haven’t actually gotten into it,” Woods mentioned Tuesday. “My coronary heart will not be into practising proper now. I’ve so many different issues to do with the tour. As soon as I begin most likely feeling a little bit bit higher and begin entering into it, I’ll begin wanting on the schedule.”
Woods, a two-time winner at The Gamers, has not performed the PGA Tour’s flagship occasion since 2019. He tied for thirtieth, and a month later gained the Masters for his fifth inexperienced jacket and his fifteenth main championship.
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He earned a five-year exemption for The Gamers with that Masters win, getting an additional 12 months to account for the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Gamers was cancelled after one spherical in 2020, although Woods didn’t enter as a result of he was feeling stiffness in his again.
There are not any particular exemptions for The Gamers. His solely means again can be via his efficiency this 12 months, or if he had been to ever play the PGA Tour Champions after turning 50 and profitable the Kaulig Firms Championship — previously Senior Gamers — at Firestone.
If he chooses to play the Masters, it might be his first event since he missed the lower on the British Open final July. Woods is on the checklist of gamers, and there’s no dedication deadline for him to determine to play at Augusta Nationwide.
Woods has by no means missed the lower on the Masters as a professional, setting a event document final 12 months along with his twenty fourth lower made. He had 19 appearances at The Gamers and solely didn’t make the lower one time in 2011 when he withdrew after a 42 on the entrance 9 with a left leg harm.