{"id":298481,"date":"2025-11-21T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:46:17","slug":"notah-begay-names-2-surprise-pga-tour-events-tiger-could-play-in-2026-golfwrx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298481\/","title":{"rendered":"Notah Begay names 2 surprise PGA Tour events Tiger could play in 2026 \u2013 GolfWRX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods recently underwent the seventh back surgery of his career, with the 15-time major champion giving no date as of yet for his return.<\/p>\n<p>The last professional event that Woods teed it up at was back at the 2024 Open Championship, with Tiger turning 50 next month making him also eligible to compete in the PGA Tour Champions from next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OcTUMYPdaOQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">While speaking on the Straight Facts Homie podcast<\/a>, analyst and close friend, Notah Begay III, has suggested that due to Tiger\u2019s issue walking, he may be looking at two PGA Tour events in 2026 that he typically skips \u2013 the Charles Schwab Challenge and RBC Heritage:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the biggest problem, in the conversations that I\u2019ve had with him, is the walking. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>He hits it great, he\u2019s in tremendous physical condition. His ball speeds are fast enough, they\u2019re 175-180 which is adequate for the PGA Tour. It\u2019s just can he walk 72 holes plus a pro-am? I don\u2019t know, and that\u2019s the big question. A major championship venue with flatter terrain. Hilton Head with flatter terrain, Colonial with flatter terrain might be targets.<\/p>\n<p>And those are venues that he\u2019s never typically played at. He\u2019s played Colonial once and never went back. And I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever been to Hilton Head. Those are two things that you may see at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Begay III also claims that he expects Woods to tee it up on the PGA Tour Champions at some point next year, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also dying to see him on the Champions Tour. He can take a cart and the walking becomes alleviated at that point.<\/p>\n<p>I think he\u2019s going to try it. You can only sit in your house and think about golf and hit balls at the range for so long. You wanna go out and see if you can beat somebody.\u201d I do think he will try it and I hope he likes it. The world of golf with Tiger is just so much better and so much more fun even if we see glimpses from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tiger is currently tied with Sam Snead on 82 PGA Tour victories, and according to Begay III, winning 83 is not beyond Woods: \u201cI will not say he wont win 83. I cant. I\u2019ve seen too many crazy things from him\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your Reaction?LIKE0LEGIT0WOW0LOL0IDHT0FLOP0OB0SHANK0 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" onload=\"colorich_show_login_status(true)\" onerror=\"colorich_show_login_status(false)\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/up\/?continue=https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/images\/logos\/accounts_logo.png&amp;type=st&amp;gpsrc=ogpy0\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods recently underwent the seventh back surgery of his career, with the 15-time major champion giving no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}