Tiger Woods says he has no timetable for a return to golf, however the 15-time main champion hasn’t dominated out the 2026 Masters at the same time as he ponders the over-50s Champions Tour.
Woods, who turned 50 on December 30, underwent disc substitute surgical procedure in October, the newest in a sequence of operations and accidents which have sidelined him for the reason that 2024 British Open.
“It’s simply a type of issues the place it’s each day, I hold making an attempt, I hold progressing,” Woods stated Tuesday at The Riviera Nation Membership, the place he hosts this week’s PGA Tour Genesis Invitational.
“I hold engaged on it, making an attempt to get stronger, making an attempt to get extra endurance on this physique and making an attempt to get it at a stage at which I can play on the highest stage once more,” Woods stated, including that he has progressed from chipping and placing follow to hitting full photographs.
“I’m capable of,” he stated. “Not properly day by day, however I can hit them.”
Regardless of the uncertainty, Woods stated when requested that the Masters, scheduled between April 9 and 12 at Augusta Nationwide, was not “off the desk.”
Woods has gained 5 Masters titles, the newest being an epic 2019 victory, which ended his 11-year main championship drought.
He suffered extreme leg accidents in a 2021 automotive crash however returned on the 2022 Masters and completed forty seventh.
The veteran famous person had a again operation in September 2024 and was rehabilitating from that setback when he introduced in March of 2025 that he had suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Woods stated the Achilles harm was not a difficulty, however the disc substitute — on high of a number of again surgical procedures over time — was proving difficult to come back again from.
A brand new decade
“I’ve had a fused again and now a disc substitute, so it’s difficult,” he stated. “And now I entered a brand new decade, in order that quantity is beginning to sink in and has us excited about the chance to have the ability to play in a cart.
“That’s one thing that, as I stated, I gained’t do out right here on this (PGA) tour as a result of I don’t imagine in it. However on the Champions Tour, that’s actually that chance.”
Whilst he strives to prepared himself for a return to competitors, Woods stated he has been devoting an amazing period of time as chair of the PGA Tour’s Future Competitors Committee created to assist form a new-look tour.
“I believed I spent loads of hours training in my prime,” Woods stated. “It doesn’t even examine to what we’ve completed within the boardroom.”
Woods stated he hopes to see the PGA Tour implement a revamped schedule in 2027, though he acknowledged it might take two years to roll out all the modifications.
He envisions a extra streamlined schedule, with “extra high gamers enjoying” — all in a system that also affords alternatives to younger expertise and retains sponsors engaged.
The time-consuming work means Woods has but to make up his thoughts about whether or not he’d be prepared to captain the 2027 US Ryder Cup group, though he stated the PGA of America had been in contact.
“They’ve requested me for my enter on it, and I haven’t made my choice but,” he stated.
“I’m making an attempt to determine what we’re making an attempt to do with our tour. That’s been driving me hours upon hours day by day and making an attempt to determine if I can really do our group, our Group USA and our gamers and everybody that’s going to be concerned within the Ryder Cup, if I can do it justice with my time.”
Revealed on Feb 18, 2026