Tiger Woods isn’t on the sector for the gamers’ championship subsequent week on the TPC Sawgrass, the final yr of his exemption from the victory of the Masters 2019.
The resolution was not shocking, particularly when Woods mentioned after a recreation of the Tmrw Golf League originally of this week that it was solely the third time he performed since his mom, Kultida, all of a sudden died on February 4th.
“This is the third time I’ve touched a membership since my mom handed, so I did not actually enter it,” Woods mentioned on Tuesday. “My coronary heart is to not observe proper now. I’ve so many different issues to do with the tour. Once I begin in all probability I felt a bit of higher and I’ll begin making us enter, I’ll begin watching this system.”
Woods, twice winner on the gamers’ championship, didn’t play the highest occasion of the PGA Tour since 2019. He linked for the thirtieth and a month later he gained the Masters for his fifth inexperienced jacket and his fifteenth predominant championship.
He gained a five-year exemption for the gamers’ championship with that victory of Masters, acquiring an additional yr to take note of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The occasion was canceled after a spherical in 2020, even when Woods didn’t enter as a result of he felt rigidity behind him.
There are not any particular exemptions for the gamers’ championship. His solely technique to return would have been by his efficiency this yr, or if he ever performed on the PGA Tour Champions League after turning 50 and gained the Kaulig Companies Championship – ex senior gamers – in Firestone.
If he chooses to play the Masters, it might be his first event since he misplaced the reduce on the British Open final July. Woods is on the checklist of gamers and there’s no expiry for the dedication to determine to play at Augusta National.
Woods has by no means misplaced chopping the Masters as knowledgeable, establishing a event report final yr along with his twenty fourth reduce made. He had 19 appearances on the gamers’ championship and was unable to chop as soon as in 2011, when he retired after a 42 on the 9 entrance with a left leg harm.
Reporting by the Associated Press.
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