Tiger Woods will NOT play the 2023 Gamers Championship after failing to enter the event earlier than Friday’s deadline with the golf legend’s subsequent occasion more likely to be The Masters
Tiger Woods is not going to play the 2023 Gamers Championship forward of the construct as much as the primary main of the 12 months, The Masters in April.
The 15-time main winner didn’t decide to the sector for subsequent week’s occasion at TPC Sawgrass by the 5pm ET deadline on Friday.
The 47-year-old stated late final 12 months that he’ll solely play the majors plus one or two extra occasions this 12 months as he continues his miraculous return from his 2021 horror automotive crash, that just about value him his leg.
And he reiterated that time after ending T45 on the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Nation Membership in Los Angeles in February.
‘Like I informed you guys final 12 months, I am not going to play any greater than in all probability the majors and possibly a pair extra,’ stated Woods. ‘That is it, that is all my physique will permit me to do. My again the best way it’s, all of the surgical procedures I had on my again, my leg the best way it’s, I simply cannot. That is simply going to be my future.
Tiger Woods is not going to play the 2023 Gamers Championship forward of the construct as much as The Masters
Woods completed T45 on the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Nation Membership in LA in February
‘So my intent final 12 months was to play in all 4 majors, I acquired three of the 4. Hopefully this 12 months I can get all 4 and possibly sprinkle in a number of right here and there. However that is it for the remainder of my profession. I do know that and I perceive that. That is simply my actuality.’
However the Gamers is not going to be a part of Woods’ restricted schedule this 12 months as a return to TPC Sawgrass simply weeks after Riviera just isn’t on the playing cards.
Woods is a two-time winner at TPC Sawgrass, however he hasn’t performed the occasion since 2019 and hasn’t completed within the high 10 since he gained in 2013.
Nonetheless, a return would have made sense given this 12 months’s Gamers Championship, the most important occasion the PGA Tour runs, is the primary since gamers got here collectively final summer season to fight the specter of LIV Golf – a battle that Woods spearheaded together with pal Rory McIlroy.
However Woods might be tactically sitting out the occasion with a purpose to put together for the actual prize, The Masters.
Woods was pressured to drag out of the Hero World Problem within the Bahamas in December attributable to plantar fasciitis and has struggled at instances with strolling programs as a result of accidents he sustained to his leg.
Two begins earlier than April may need been overloading his leg and he may need as a substitute selected to relaxation it for Augusta.
The 47-year-old has stated that he’ll solely play the majors plus one or two extra occasions this 12 months
Woods made his return to the fairways final April at The Masters 15 months after his automotive crash
Woods made his return to the fairways final April at The Masters – his first begin in 15 months following the automotive accident in February 2021.
Woods managed simply 9 rounds in 2022 due to problems across the limb-threatening accidents he sustained in his automotive crash the earlier 12 months.
Earlier than the Genesis Invitational final month, Woods had not teed it up in a event with a lower since The Open final July.
He might nonetheless play the Valspar Championship or Texas Open, however it’s possible that his subsequent begin can be on the Thursday of the 2023 Masters at Augusta Nationwide.
