{"id":260800,"date":"2025-10-30T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/260800\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:58:09","slug":"pga-tour-champions-ready-for-tiger-woods-if-he-wants-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/260800\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Champions ready for Tiger Woods if he wants to play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 29, 2025, 05:34 PM ET<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods<\/a> hasn’t said when or if he’ll play competitive golf again as he recovers from his second back surgery in the past 13 months.<\/p>\n

But if it comes on the PGA Tour Champions, the 50-and-over circuit will be ready.<\/p>\n

Woods turns 50 on Dec. 30, and PGA Tour Champions president Miller Brady told Golf Channel<\/a> this week that preparations already are underway in case he opts to play on the senior circuit.<\/p>\n

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“Yes, we’re ready. We’re well prepared,” Brady said. “We’ve done some whiteboarding over the past year in preparation for Tiger turning 50. And if and when he plays, our tournaments are prepared.<\/p>\n

“It is going to be more. Security, buses, portalets, concession stands — all of that is taken into account when we plan for that.”<\/p>\n

Whether Woods plays at all, however, is one of the sport’s biggest questions.<\/p>\n

He has had seven back surgeries since April 2014, the most recent coming earlier this month, when he had a disk in his lower back that had caused pain and mobility issues replaced. He didn’t mention at the time how long it would keep him out of golf.<\/p>\n

He also has dealt with major lower-body injuries, shattering his right leg and ankle in a car crash in February 2021 and rupturing his left Achilles tendon earlier this year.<\/p>\n

“To be honest with you, given the last surgery, I just hope Tiger gets back on his feet and is able to play golf again,” Brady told Golf Channel.<\/p>\n

Woods hasn’t played in an event since a playoff loss in the PNC Championship last year.<\/p>\n

Benefits of the PGA Tour Champions include that most events are 54 holes and that players are allowed to use carts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 29, 2025, 05:34 PM ET Tiger Woods hasn’t said when or if he’ll play competitive golf again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-260800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}