Tiger Woods has confirmed he’ll return to PGA Tour motion at subsequent week’s Genesis Invitational in what shall be his first aggressive look since final yr’s Open Championship; watch the Genesis Invitational dwell on Sky Sports activities Golf, beginning at 3:30pm on Thursday

Tiger Woods will play his first aggressive match since final yr’s Open Championship

Tiger Woods has confirmed he’ll return to PGA Tour motion at subsequent week’s Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles.

Woods, who’s the host of the match on the Riviera Nation Membership, hasn’t featured in a aggressive match since final July’s Open Championship at St Andrews.

The Genesis Invitational, which is dwell on Sky Sports activities, can even be the primary PGA Tour occasion that Woods, 47, has performed outdoors of a significant because the Zozo Championship in October 2020.

The 15-time main winner has struggled with accidents referring to a severe automobile crash through which he was concerned in February 2021.

“I am able to play an ACTUAL PGA Tour occasion subsequent week @thegenesisinv,” Woods posted on Twitter on Friday.

The American withdrew from December’s Hero World Problem citing his struggles with plantar fasciitis in his proper foot, however did play later that month alongside his son Charlie on the two-round PNC Championship, an unofficial occasion at which gamers are allowed to make use of buggies to get across the course.

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Tiger and Charlie Woods displayed nerveless placing because the father-son duo produced an opening-round 59 on the PNC Professional-Am Championship.

Woods made a shock return in April final yr at The Masters, ending forty seventh, however was then compelled to withdraw following the third spherical of the PGA Championship the subsequent month as he struggled together with his motion.

Returning to the scene of two of his Open Championship victories, Woods was unable to make the reduce at St Andrews in July.

Talking after his look on the PNC Championship in December, Woods stated he hoped to play in all 4 majors this yr.

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Woods made an emotional stroll down the 18th gap at St Andrews to a standing ovation after lacking the reduce on the a hundred and fiftieth Open Championship

“The aim [for next year] is to play simply the most important championships and perhaps one or two extra,” Woods stated. “That is it.”

Woods’ return comes on the scene of his PGA Tour debut, which he made as a 16-year-old newbie in 1992. He final performed on the Genesis Invitational in 2020, ending final of those that made the reduce on that event.

Affirmation of Woods’ participation is an extra increase to the match, which is one in all 17 ‘elevated’ occasions on the PGA Tour this season and is due to this fact assured to function the likes of world No 1 Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm.

Watch the Genesis Invitational subsequent week dwell on Sky Sports activities. Stay protection begins on Thursday from 3:30pm on Sky Sports activities Golf.

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