Woods has two weeks to decide, with the season’s first major beginning on Thursday, April 9. On his way to five Green Jackets, Woods has missed five Masters since first appearing at the “Cathedral of Pines” as a teenage amateur 31 years ago, and he does not intend to be absent from another.
“I’ve loved the tournament, I’ve loved being there since I was 19 years old, so it’s meant a lot to me,” he said. “We’ll see how it goes. I’ll be practising, playing and keep trying to make progress. It feels good to be back but I would have liked it to be better circumstances. That’s the way sport is – you put yourself out there and sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and you deal with it.”