Tiger at Augusta for practice ahead of Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. — If there have been any lingering questions on Tiger Woods competing within the 87th Masters this week, he answered them by displaying as much as observe at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership on Sunday.

Woods, 47, has competed in only one official PGA Tour occasion in additional than seven months, tying for forty fifth within the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Nation Membership outdoors Los Angeles in February.

The 15-time main championship winner made his official return to aggressive golf on the 2022 Masters, which was his first begin in 508 days after he was severely injured in a automotive wreck in February 2021. He completed forty seventh after carding consecutive 6-over 78s on the weekend, which had been his worst scores on the Masters.

Woods, a five-time Masters champion, arrived on the observe vary Sunday round 3 p.m. ET and hit balls for about half-hour. It is going to be his twenty fifth begin within the Masters.

Woods performed in simply three occasions final season; he withdrew after 54 holes on the PGA Championship due to ache in his surgically repaired proper leg and again, and missed the reduce on the a hundred and fiftieth Open Championship at St. Andrews in July.

Woods has repeatedly stated he would play solely within the majors and perhaps one or two different tournaments going ahead.

“This is the deal: Like I instructed you guys final yr, I am not going to play any greater than most likely the majors and perhaps a pair extra,” Woods stated on the Genesis Invitational. “That is it, that is all my physique will enable me to do. My again the way in which it’s, all of the surgical procedures I had on my again, my leg the way in which it’s, I simply can’t. That is simply going to be my future.

“So my intent final yr was to play in all 4 majors; I received three of the 4. Hopefully this yr I can get all 4 and perhaps sprinkle in a number of right here and there. However that is it for the remainder of my profession. I do know that and I perceive that. That is simply my actuality.”

Woods is scheduled to talk to reporters throughout a information convention Tuesday.