Tiger Woods, after being sidelined from competitive golf for 15 months because of a back injury that required two operations, looked relaxed and ready to resume his career in the first round of the Hero World Challenge. The tournament has an 18-man field, 72 holes and no cut. This is in sharp contrast to last December, his competitive future, a question mark then!
Woods, a 79-time PGA Tour winner, played his last competitive round on Aug. 23, 2015, at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. He closed with a 70 to finish tied for 10th. He was scheduled to play in the opening event of the 2016-17 wraparound season last month in Northern California, but he withdrew a few days after committing to play, describing his game as “vulnerable.”
For Woods, a 14-time major champion, there can be no easing back into competition. At the Press Conference Woods was tailed by journalists; even as Woods posed for photographs on and beside motorcycles and alongside the Hero chief executive, Pawan Munjal, and granted interviews to print and television reporters from India. He poked fun at his age, stroking his gray-speckled goatee and joking that he was taking hair from his top and putting it on his chin.
Woods said his goal was the same as it ever was - to win; he asserted that he would I like to play a full schedule every year for the next decade-plus! Woods said. “Yeah, that would be great. Can I? I don’t know. We’ll see.”
For Woods, a 14-time major champion, there can be no easing back into competition. At the Press Conference Woods was tailed by journalists; even as Woods posed for photographs on and beside motorcycles and alongside the Hero chief executive, Pawan Munjal, and granted interviews to print and television reporters from India. He poked fun at his age, stroking his gray-speckled goatee and joking that he was taking hair from his top and putting it on his chin.
Woods said his goal was the same as it ever was - to win; he asserted that he would I like to play a full schedule every year for the next decade-plus! Woods said. “Yeah, that would be great. Can I? I don’t know. We’ll see.”
By Staffwriter
