It’s almost April, which means it’s time for a tradition unlike any other: determining whether Tiger Woods is going to tee it up at Augusta National for this year’s Masters. This has unfortunately become a nearly annual event because of Woods’ extensive late-career run of injuries, but there’s a completely different focus on Woods this year.
From tracking private planes to rumors of Tiger shooting worst-ball scores in the mid-60s at his home course in Florida, there’s nothing that hasn’t been floated as a bellwether for prognosticating whether Woods was going to play in many of the last several Masters. And yet, because of his extremely private life, there is still no clear indication this time around about whether Tiger will in fact make his (latest) comeback starting with the 86th edition of an event he’s now won five times.
It would be remarkable if Tiger played the Masters for myriad reasons. He hasn’t teed it up at an Official World Golf Rankings event since the 2020 Masters, which took place in November of that year. Since then, he endured yet another surgery on his back as well as one of the more horrific car wrecks we’ve ever seen a modern athlete endure.
Woods more or less disappeared for most of 2021 before emerging from the shadows late in the year with a sleeve on his right leg and a driver in both hands. Tiger played the PNC Championship in December with his son, Charlie, and looked surprisingly lithe.
Asked if that meant a return to the PGA Tour was on deck, Woods repeatedly demurred and essentially voiced: I’ll be back when I’m back.
He was again questioned about a possible return to the Masters by Jim Nantz at the 2022 Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club in February and deflected Nantz’s questions so many times that, at one point, he added that Nantz needed to “slow down, turbo”. The questions were not out of line, nor were they irrational.
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