Tiger Woods to ‘exhaust every effort’ to play in 2022 Masters golf tournament

With the 2022 Masters quickly approaching, PGA Tour followers are asking: Will Tiger Woods make his return to Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership?

It’s a good query, but one the place the reply continues to be firmly up within the air. The newest report from Golf Channel/NBC reporter Todd Lewis is that Woods will exhaust each effort to tee off at Augusta Nationwide on April 7.

Woods, 46, has but to say relatively he’ll play or not, however continues to be listed within the area of opponents on the Masters’ web site. 

Gamers have till the week of the match to determine whether or not they’ll play or not. In 2016 and 2017, Woods waited till the ultimate weekend earlier than deciding to not play within the Masters.

Nonetheless recovering from his near-fatal crash in February 2021, Woods made sufficient progress to play alongside his son, Charlie, within the 2021 PNC Championship in December. Crew Woods got here in second place, ending two pictures behind the father-son duo of John Daly and John Daly II.

Tiger Woods tees off on the second gap throughout the second spherical of the PNC Championship golf match Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Orlando, Fla.
(AP Photograph/Scott Audette)

Woods was in a position to make use of the providers of a golf cart, one thing he received’t have the posh of if/when he returns to the PGA Tour.

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“I used to be very restricted in what I may do there,” Woods stated on Feb. 16, through Sports activities Illustrated’s Bob Harig. “Being out right here on Tour, you get uncovered. And that’s the great thing about this sport, you get uncovered. There are not any carts, and you need to work your means round it, you need to be match sufficient to have the ability to do that sport at a excessive stage. You must follow at a excessive stage to come back out right here and win, and I’ve not performed any of that.”

The 15-time main champion and five-time Masters champion was seen training and strolling the course at Medalist Golf Membership this previous weekend, fueling hypothesis {that a} return may very well be close to.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy of Northern Eire stroll throughout the seventeenth gap throughout the second spherical of the Genesis Open at Riviera Nation Membership on February 16, 2018 in Pacific Palisades, California.
(Photograph by Warren Little/Getty Photos)

If Woods doesn’t play, it’ll be the primary Masters since 1994 to not characteristic Woods or Phil Mickelson. Mickelson, 51, eliminated himself from the sphere final Monday.

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