Tiger Woods says competing at this 12 months’s Masters is “not off the desk” however the 15-time main champion nonetheless has no timetable for his return.
Woods, who turned 50 on 30 December, underwent surgery in October to exchange a disc in his again.
It was the most recent in a collection of operations and accidents which have stored the American sidelined since lacking the lower at The Open in July 2024.
“It is simply a kind of issues the place it is every day, I hold making an attempt, I hold progressing,” mentioned Woods.
“I hold engaged on it, making an attempt to get stronger, making an attempt to get extra endurance on this physique and making an attempt to get it at a stage at which I can play on the highest stage once more.”
Talking on the Riviera Nation Membership close to Los Angeles, the place he hosts this week’s Genesis Invitational, Woods mentioned he has progressed from chipping and placing observe and is now “capable of” hit full photographs.
“Not nicely on daily basis, however I can hit them,” he mentioned.
“So far as the disc substitute, it is simply sore. It takes time. My physique has been by way of so much.”
Woods claimed his fifth Masters title in 2019, ending an 11-year main championship drought, and added that he had not dominated out competing at Augusta from 9-12 April.
He suffered extreme leg accidents in a 2021 automobile crash earlier than present process a again operation in September 2024 and struggling a ruptured Achilles tendon final March.
“I’ve had a fused again and now a disc substitute, so it is difficult,” mentioned the 50-year-old. “Now I’ve entered a brand new decade in order that quantity is beginning to sink in and has us excited about the chance to have the ability to play in a cart [on the Champions Tour].”
