Tiger Woods carded a final-round 73 to complete tied-Forty fifth in PGA Tour comeback; 15-time main champion was making his first official look since The Open in July; Woods anticipated to function at The Masters from April 6-9

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Tiger Woods displays on his aggressive return on the Genesis Invitational, how far he has are available his profession and what his plans are for the long run.

Tiger Woods admits he’s not sure whether or not he’ll play competitively once more earlier than The Masters after making an encouraging return to PGA Tour motion on the Genesis Invitational.

Woods marked his first aggressive begin since The Open final July – and first PGA Tour look exterior of a significant because the Zozo Championship in October 2020 – with a final-round 73 at Riviera Nation Membership.

The 15-time main champion has repeatedly acknowledged he can be unable to decide to a full taking part in schedule, following career-threatening accidents sustained in a automobile crash in February 2021, though Woods stays hopeful of competing in all 4 majors

Tiger Woods has by no means gained at Riviera Nation Membership

“Properly, I’m positive you will notice me in some place,” Woods advised CBS. “Competitively, I do not know.

“My purpose each 12 months from right here going ahead is to play in all of the majors – I’m not going to play an excessive amount of greater than that. My physique and my leg and my again simply will not enable me to play far more than that anymore.

“In order that was my purpose final 12 months and I used to be in a position to play three of the 4 and this 12 months, I can hopefully play all 4. That’s going to be my schedule going ahead due to all the limitations I’ve.”

Woods birdied his opening gap however made three bogeys in a five-hole stretch from the sixth, then blended two birdies with as many bogeys on the again 9 to finish beneath par for the match.

“My recreation is okay,” Woods stated after his ultimate spherical. “Yeah, it’s rusty. I made some foolish errors right here and there and I did not fairly choose up the velocity of the greens each day quick sufficient, like I usually would if I used to be taking part in.

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Tiger Woods carded a formidable four-under 67 on day three of the the Genesis Invitational as he continued his return from harm.

“However total, I really feel like I hit the ball like I’ve been hitting it at dwelling. I simply needed to carry it out right here the place I needed to stroll from level A to level B and that was all the time the problem of it.

“I’m simply so grateful for all my crew for getting me prepared each evening, morning, to at the very least give myself an opportunity to go on the market and play. I used to be in a position to do it.”

Tiger Woods performed alongside Tyrrell Hatton and Kramer Hickok on the ultimate day in California

The story of Tiger’s Sunday

Woods recovered from lacking the opening fairway to roll in a 15-foot birdie on the par-five first and holed from 12 ft on the third to save lots of par, having discovered the greenside bunker together with his strategy.

The previous world No 1 acquired up and down from the again off the fourth inexperienced to proceed his bogey-free begin however missed from 4 ft to save lots of par on the subsequent, with Woods then failing to transform an eight-foot birdie probability after a superb tee shot on the par-three sixth.

Woods discovered fairway bunkers off the tee at each the eighth and ninth, leaving him unable to rise up and down on each events and seeing him shut a front-nine 37 with successive bogeys, then did not reap the benefits of the par-five eleventh after two-putting from eight ft.

The 47-year-old responded to a poor pitch from the tough and dropped shot on the twelfth by holing a long-range birdie on the par-four subsequent to get again beneath par for the match, solely to card a three-putt bogey on the fifteenth to slide again level-par for the match.

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Tiger Woods produced a second of magic by holing a long-range birdie from off the thirteenth inexperienced through the ultimate spherical

An excellent tee shot on the par-three sixteenth arrange a 3rd birdie of the day for Woods, who failed so as to add to his tally on the par-five subsequent after which signed off an encouraging week with a two-putt par on the final.

When may Woods return?

Woods may take into account the Arnold Palmer Invitational from March 2-5 his subsequent aggressive begin, an occasion he has gained a document eight instances at Bay Hill, though that would depart restricted restoration time from this week’s look in California.

Will Tiger Woods compete in all 4 majors for the primary time since 2020?

The Gamers at TPC Sawgrass can be an alternative choice per week later, with this 12 months’s occasion marking the tenth anniversary of Woods’ second victory on the PGA Tour’s flagship occasion.

Ought to Woods resolve towards competing in both of the 2 Florida-based occasions, then it could be unlikely we might see him again in motion earlier than the opening males’s main of the 12 months at Augusta Nationwide.

Woods completed forty seventh at The Masters final 12 months and shall be hoping to enhance on that efficiency from April 6-9, reside on Sky Sports activities, 4 years on from profitable the Inexperienced Jacket for a fifth time.