Tiger Woods wants to play more, but doesn’t know if he can

“If I would like to play more? Yes. Can I? I don’t know“. Here is what Tiger Woods, who will return to the greens after seven months of absence, said Tuesday at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles, which he sponsors but has never won.

“I’m not going to play a full season, so I have to be able to choose my tournaments. As I said last year, it will be the Majors and maybe one or two more tournaments. I have to be realistic about this. But I will put all my energy into my participation in these events“, added the 47-year-old American, winner of 15 Grand Slam events.

The golfing superstar has not played since the British Open in July 2022. The Scottish Major was his third and final tournament of the year, with the PGA Championship in May and the Augusta Masters in April, where he made a unexpected return, clubs in hand, after his serious car accident on February 23, 2021. “The initial plan was to play, it remains to be seen what my endurance will be. I was able to recover well from my injury“, continued Woods, who has been treating plantar fasciitis for the past two months. An injury related to those suffered the previous year during his car accident.

“The key is in the day-to-day recovery plan. My leg is in better shape than last year, but my ankle is the problem. We had to make sure that she relaxes, recovers, while restoring her strength at the same time, it’s a complex balance to find“, he clarified.

“So yes, I’m very rusty, but I’ve experienced that many times in the past. I prepared myself tactically and I also know this course, on which I did not have much success elsewhere.“, smiled the “Tiger” who has indeed never won this tournament yet, he who nevertheless co-holds, with Sam Snead, the record for the number of USPGA victories (82), the last dating back to 2019 at the Zozo Championship.