{"id":551719,"date":"2026-03-21T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:30:26","slug":"masters-hint-has-tiger-woods-fans-talking-themselves-into-augusta-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551719\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Hint Has Tiger Woods Fans Talking Themselves Into Augusta Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tiger Woods<\/a> might\u2019ve just sent the golf world into a full-blown frenzy \u2026 without even saying a word.<\/p>\n

The 15-time major champ still hasn\u2019t officially committed to the 2026 Masters — and given his recent health struggles, most fans have been bracing for a \u201cnot this year\u201d announcement. But now … there\u2019s a very interesting wrinkle out of Augusta.<\/p>\n

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On the tournament\u2019s official website, Tiger is NOT listed among past champions skipping the tournament — a group that does include legends like Jack Nicklaus<\/a> and Nick Faldo. Instead, Woods is sitting comfortably on the active list \u2026 and it gets better.<\/p>\n

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His player bio<\/a> straight-up reads: \u201cTiger Woods is making his 27th start in the Masters in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah \u2026 that\u2019ll get people talking.<\/p>\n

Now before everyone starts ironing their Sunday red — nothing\u2019s official. Tiger himself hasn\u2019t confirmed a thing, and there\u2019s plenty of reason to be cautious. The five-time Green Jacket winner is still recovering<\/a> from his seventh back surgery last October, and by his own admission, it\u2019s been a grind.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI said I\u2019ve been working on it,\u201d Woods said on Tuesday during a TGL event. \u201cSometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Disc replacement is not a lot of fun … I\u2019ve had a lot of procedures prior to that, so the body doesn\u2019t quite heal like it was when I was 24.”<\/p>\n

“Doesn\u2019t quite bounce back. So I have good days when I can pretty much do anything, and other days where it\u2019s hard to just move around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not exactly a ringing endorsement for walking 72 holes at Augusta National.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s another red flag … Tiger hasn\u2019t even teed it up in TGL this year, despite his Jupiter Links squad making a run to the finals. If he\u2019s not playing indoors, it\u2019s fair to wonder how close he really is to competing on golf\u2019s biggest stage.<\/p>\n

Which begs the question … do they know something we don\u2019t?<\/p>\n

At minimum, Tiger hasn\u2019t told Augusta he\u2019s out — and with three weeks to go, that\u2019s all fans needed to lose their minds.<\/p>\n

If hope were a leaderboard \u2026 Tiger\u2019s already in first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods might\u2019ve just sent the golf world into a full-blown frenzy \u2026 without even saying a word.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-551719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}