Tiger Woods Announces Return to Golf

Ten months aft a horrific clang hospitalized him, with doctors considering amputating 1 of his legs, Tiger Woods has announced a comeback.

The proprietor of 15 large championships, Woods, 45, said he’d vie with his son, Charlie, successful the PNC Championship successful Orlando, Florida, connected December 18.The tourney marks a stunning instrumentality for the legend, whose February 23 car clang successful California appeared to extremity his illustrious career.

“Although it’s been a agelong and challenging year, I americium precise excited to adjacent it retired by competing successful the PNC Championship with my lad Charlie,” Woods tweeted.

“I’m playing arsenic a dada and couldn’t beryllium much excited and proud.”

The PNC Championship features play champions teaming with household members astatine the Ritz Carlton Golf Club.

The 36-hole tourney takes spot aft a two-day pro-am tournament.

Woods and Charlie participated successful the 2020 PNC Championship, astir 2 months earlier Woods’ death-defying crash.

Earlier, Woods announced that helium would instrumentality astatine immoderate constituent and bounds his tourney participation. However, if healthy, it’s anticipated that he’ll play successful large championships similar The Masters and the U.S. Open.

“We person been liaising with Tiger and his squad for immoderate clip and are delighted that helium has present decided to marque his instrumentality to competitory play astatine the PNC Championship,” Alastair Johnston of IMG, the enforcement president of the event, said successful a statement.

In March, the PGA Tour volition induct Woods into its hallway of fame, honoring the game’s preeminent superstar who lone trails Jack Nicklaus successful vocation victories astatine a large championship.

“As acold arsenic playing astatine the Tour level, I don’t cognize erstwhile that’s going to happen,” Woods said recently. “Now, I’ll play a circular present oregon there, a small hit-and-giggle. That’s thing that, for a portion there, it didn’t look similar I was going to. Now I’m capable to enactment successful the athletics of golf. Now, to what level, I bash not cognize that.”