Tiger Woods eyes Masters return, future Ryder Cup captain role amid back surgery rehab

In little than 2 months, Tiger Woods could tee it up again astatine historical Augusta National. 

The five-time Masters champion did not regularisation retired a instrumentality to the large aft skipping it past year. When reporters asked Tuesday if helium could vie astatine the Masters successful April, Woods replied without elaboration, "No."

Woods made the chopped astatine the Masters for a grounds 24th clip successful a enactment successful 2024. He is leaving the doorway unfastened contempt recovering from his seventh backmost surgery, a process to regenerate a disk, and a near-term docket that does not look to see competitory golf.

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Tiger Woods of the United States laughs during a signifier circular anterior to the 2024 Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club connected April 09, 2024 successful Augusta, Georgia. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

"I thought I spent a batch of hours practicing successful my prime," Woods said astatine the Genesis Invitational, alluding to the responsibilities helium shares successful trying to reshape the PGA Tour schedule. "It doesn’t comparison to what we’ve done successful the boardroom."

Woods’ workload volition apt origin into whether helium takes connected the U.S. captaincy for the 2027 Ryder Cup successful Ireland. He declined the relation 2 years ago, citing a deficiency of clip to perpetrate to the occupation successful a meaningful way.

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Woods celebrated his 50th day astatine the extremity of past year, making him eligible for the PGA Tour Champions.

He missed each PGA Tour lawsuit past year, marking the archetypal clip successful Woods' storied vocation that helium did not vie successful a azygous tournament. He besides has yet to vie successful the indoor TGL league. 

"Well, I’m trying — enactment it that way," helium said, adding that helium tin deed afloat shots but not each time "and not precise well."

Tiger Woods celebrates during the trophy presumption aft winning the Masters Tournament astatine Augusta National Golf Club connected April 14, 2019, successful Augusta, Georgia. (Allen Eyestone/The Augusta Chronicle)

He had country successful March 2025 for a ruptured Achilles tendon, which is nary longer holding him back. He said his little backmost was sore, and astatine his age, "It’s astir apt going to instrumentality maine a small spot longer."

"My assemblage has been done a lot," Woods said. "Each and each day, I support trying, I support progressing, I support moving connected it, trying to get stronger, trying to get much endurance successful this assemblage and trying to get it astatine a level astatine which I tin play astatine the highest level again."

His main involvement is indoors. He is connected the committee of the PGA Tour and the commercialized PGA Tour Enterprises, heading the "Future Competition Committee" that is trying to make a exemplary to conscionable CEO Brian Rolapp’s extremity of less tournaments that are much meaningful for the champion players.

Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club waves to fans arsenic helium is introduced astatine the commencement of a lucifer of the TMRW Golf League (TGL) against Boston Common Golf, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The lone happening wide is that a caller exemplary astir apt won’t beryllium acceptable by 2027. The committee has reached statement connected a large commencement to the play — that could beryllium the week aft oregon earlier the Super Bowl — taking the large events to bigger markets and becoming the must-see athletics of the summer.

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Woods besides expressed his content successful the value of creating a way for the adjacent radical of play stars.

"We’re trying to make opportunities for that turnover ... to get much younker retired present due to the fact that yet they’re going to instrumentality implicit the game," Woods said. "So trying to make that opportunity, trying to make the close competitory exemplary and the situation to foster that, that’s been the greater situation of it all."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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