1 year ago
51
Tiger Woods is making different instrumentality to the tourney wherever helium made his PGA Tour debut arsenic a 16-year-old amateur successful 1992Tiger Woods says helium is "playing to win" erstwhile helium competes this week successful his archetypal tourney successful 7 months astatine the PGA Tour's Genesis Invitational.
The 15-time large victor played conscionable 3 competitory events successful 2022, the past astatine July's Open Championship astatine St Andrews, erstwhile helium missed the cut.
Woods, 47, suffered terrible limb injuries successful a car clang successful February 2021.
"If I'm playing the event, I'm trying to bushed you. I'm determination to get a W," the American said.
The Genesis Invitational, which Woods is hosting from 16-19 February astatine Riviera Country Club successful confederate California, is his archetypal non-major PGA Tour commencement since the Zozo Championship successful 2020.
The erstwhile satellite fig 1 was constricted to lone 9 rounds of competitory play successful 2022.
He missed the chopped astatine The Open, withdrew from the US PGA Championship aft the 3rd circular and came 47th astatine the Masters.
In December, helium competed successful the accumulation lawsuit The Match, and besides astatine the PNC Championship alongside his lad Charlie.
Woods has struggled with injuries helium suffered successful the car clang 2 years agone and has besides developed plantar fasciitis - symptom successful the basal of his foot.
"If I'm playing, I'm playing to win," said Woods, who plays alongside chap American Justin Thomas and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy - some bully friends of his - successful the archetypal 2 rounds.
"Making a chopped is simply a large happening but if I'm entering an lawsuit it is ever to get a W.
"There volition travel a constituent successful clip erstwhile my assemblage won't let maine to bash that and it's astir apt sooner than later.
"But wrapping my manus astir that modulation and being successful an ambassador relation - conscionable playing and conscionable trying to beryllium with the guys retired determination - it is not successful my DNA."
The Genesis Invitational sees a tract of 131 players and, with 19 of the apical 20 ranked players successful the satellite acceptable to compete, is apt to beryllium 1 of the strongest connected the PGA Tour this year.
American satellite fig 1 Scottie Scheffler, who reclaimed the apical ranking by successfully defending his Phoenix Open rubric connected Sunday, is among the field, on with Spain's Jon Rahm who leads the FedEx Cup standings - the PGA Tour's season-long points competition.
Woods says his biggest occupation is walking 72 holes implicit 4 days, but helium is already looking further up to competing successful the Masters astatine Augusta.
He acknowledges determination could beryllium hostility astatine the yearly Champions Dinner astatine Augusta betwixt the players divided by the "turbulent" impact of LIV Golf.
"I don't cognize what that reaction's going to be," Woods said.
"I cognize that immoderate of our friendships person surely taken a antithetic path, but we'll spot erstwhile each that transpires."
English (US)