On Thursday golf will certainly quit for the umpteenth time. Once once more the eyes of the globe will certainly be concentrated on Tiger Woods, at his umpteenth return to the race after yet an additional compelled quit. The mishap of February 23, 2021 in Los Angeles reduced his affordable job however absolutely did not lessen his mood of tale one trace.
Tiger Woods will certainly play The Genesis Invitational, a $20 million PGA Tour competitors from February 16 to (ideally) 19. The competition happens forty miles from Woods’ home and also, paradoxically, Tiger has actually never ever won on the course of Pacific Palisades.
Tiger Woods, timetable
The 47-year-old go back to the area on the PGA Tour practically 3 years after his last competitors: it remains in truth because the 2020 Zozo Championship that the globe’s leading circuit has actually not had the honor of having the toughest golf player of the last thirty years on the beginning tee.
Since after that, in between back issues which remarkable car mishap, Woods’ getaways have actually been drunk. In 2022, the Californian revealed his objective to proceed playing however no more at the pre-accident speed. Tiger need to very carefully select minority races to go into.
So in 2014 he just played 3 Majors (getting over the cut to Masters and also PGA Championship) efficiently quiting from the Open Championship in July onwards. The just consultations on the training course were the PNC Championship with his boy Charlie and also The Match, constantly making use of a golf cart.
Possibility, that of using the PGA with the assistance of the golf cart (based on consent), never ever considered by the 47-year-old fromCypress Hill The return to The Genesis Invitational has lots of significances.
That Californian race, according to lots of, is where everything started and also (possibly) where everything finished. On the 18 openings of the Riviera County Club in Pacific Palisades a appealing Tiger Woods made his 16-year-old launching on the PGA Tour as an amateur in 1992.
And returning from the Riviera in 2021 Woods (where he existed as a review) went off the roadway, risking his life. For the document: Tiger Woods today is number 1,294 worldwide position and also has actually won eighty-two times on the PGA Tour (like him just Sam Snead).
