Tiger Woods is making his return to enjoying golf in entrance of a reside crowd for the primary time in additional than a 12 months.
The TGL introduced that Woods will play for his Juniper Hyperlink crew within the second match of the indoor league’s finals at SoFi Heart on Wednesday (10am AEDT). His crew trails Los Angeles 1-0 within the three-match collection after dropping Monday’s opener 6-5.
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He has not performed in an occasion because the 2024 Open Championship.
The 15-time main winner has spent the TGLs season as cheerleader and coach for his Juniper squad of Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner. He’ll assist them attempt to even issues up in opposition to Los Angeles’ Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Sahith Theegala.
Jupiter alternate Akshay Bhatia is leaving to play the Hero Indian Open this week on the European tour.
The 50-year-old Woods, who’s recovering from again surgical procedure in October, has been coy about whether or not he’ll play on this 12 months’s Masters two weeks from now with out ruling it out.
A TGL return is a optimistic first step.
“Effectively, I believe that I’ve been making an attempt to play each one among these matches. I’ve been making an attempt to return again. Nevertheless it simply hasn’t labored out that manner,” Woods stated final week about probably enjoying a TGL match, per Golf Digest.
“I’ve had a foul run of accidents final 12 months. I believe it’s been a 12 months and some days since I blew out my Achilles [last March]. And so then I’ve had two again operations. So it’s been just a little tough go. However the guys right here, this crew, we’ve got a lot enjoyable, I actually don’t need to screw up the lineup, I simply need these guys to maintain enjoying.”
This text was initially revealed on the New York Put up and was republished with permission.