Tiger Woods, still recovering from the back surgery he had last October, may not have a target date for \u2060his long-awaited return to competition but made clear on Tuesday that he had not yet ruled out competing in this year’s Masters.<\/p>\n
Woods, speaking to reporters ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades, California, where he is the tournament host, was asked whether the 9-12 April Masters was off the table.<\/p>\n
“No,” \u200cWoods, who has \u2060not competed since missing the cut at the 2024 British Open, said before unleashing a large smile.<\/p>\n
The 15-times major champion, who also had surgery in March 2025 to repair a ruptured left Achilles tendon, \u200cgot clearance last December to resume chipping and putting for the first time since \u2060undergoing the lumbar disc replacement surgery.<\/p>\n
As for his Achilles, \u200cWoods said it is no longer an issue but \u2060the back \u200cremains sore.<\/p>\n
“As far as the disc replacement, it’s just sore. It takes time,” said Woods. “My body has been through a lot. It’s just \u2060one of those things where it’s each and every day, I \u2060keep trying, I keep progressing, I keep working on it, trying to get stronger, trying to get more endurance in this body and trying to get it at a level at which I can play at the highest \u200clevel again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods, still recovering from the back surgery he had last October, may not have a target date…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-304179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}