PGA Tour-LIV \u201cmerger\u201d that never happened<\/a>.<\/p>\nReally, I just want to hear when Woods will try to play again. But any golf fan knows the two kinds of Woods tweets.<\/p>\n
1. The statement announcing he\u2019s going to have another surgery. Or 2. The promotional post, for his foundation or something else.<\/p>\n
I got a notification this week that Woods posted, only for it to be a retweet of his apparel brand, Sun Day Red. Did you know \u201cThe Pioneer Willow applies a clean blucher construction to our highest performance technology, built from the ground up to serve the athlete first\u201d? Riveting stuff.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t tweet the week of the Genesis Invitational, perhaps too busy with his responsibilities hosting the event. But he knows how to make a headline, to keep the hype building.<\/p>\n
That week, at Woods\u2019 press conference in the capacity as host, he didn\u2019t rule out playing the Masters in two months, or playing the PGA Tour Champions now that he\u2019s 50, or captaining the 2027 U.S. Ryder Cup team. But the more you think about it, the more you see these as empty headlines. Not ruling it out means no decision has been made one way or another.<\/p>\n
OK. Let us know when you know, I guess!<\/p>\n
If anyone needs a brief refresher, Woods last played at the 2024 Open Championship. He had his sixth back surgery that fall for a nerve impingement, ruptured an Achilles while ramping up his training in March and had back surgery No. 7 for a disc replacement this past October.<\/p>\n
As recently as December, he told reporters he could only chip and putt at that point, but he\u2019s graduated to hitting full shots now. \u201cYeah, I\u2019m able to. Not well every day, but I can hit them,\u201d Woods said this month at the Genesis.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why I\u2019m skeptical about this Masters return.<\/h2>\n
He needs to be hitting full shots well, every day, by Round 1 on April 9. If not, his record streak of 24 made cuts will be in danger. The rest of the golf world is getting younger, more fit; Woods\u2019 last three Masters finishes — 47th, WD after making the cut on the number, 60th — are his three worst since he was 20 years old.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m intrigued by the idea that he could sign up for the Champions Tour just to get a couple of rounds in while being allowed to drive a cart. Honestly, he\u2019d be near the top of the leaderboard if not lapping the field, and it would send a bunch of people scrambling to figure out just how you can watch the old guys\u2019 circuit.<\/p>\n
But as his body breaks down, the real struggle for Woods has been to walk the course for four rounds, and as he\u2019s said in the past, Augusta National is no breeze in that department.<\/p>\n
So the not-ruling-it-out declaration was a salesman\u2019s tactic from someone who\u2019s been around the block and who knows the golf media and fandom all too well. Someone give me a ring if he\u2019s playing in April. Notifications — off.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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