Woods told ESPN that he will play in Match 2 of the best-of-3 TGL finals (7 p.m., ESPN, ESPN App), a decision he publicized after Jupiter Links lost a 6-5 nail-biter to Los Angeles in the opener Monday night in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.<\/p>\n
Woods heads the Jupiter team but has sat out all year as he recovers from October back surgery. Jupiter had been using Akshay Bhatia<\/a> as an alternate, but Bhatia is playing the Hero Indian Open this week in New Delhi on the European tour.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n Against L.A. on Monday, Jupiter used Tom Kim<\/a>, Kevin Kisner<\/a> and Max Homa<\/a>. Kisner, who has been in the broadcast booth for NBC during the Florida swing on the PGA Tour, was in the lineup for only the second time since Feb. 2.<\/p>\n Woods’ team, which snuck into the TGL playoffs, very well could be ahead 1-0 in the finals, but Sahith Theegala<\/a> — who had struggled throughout the night — found the fairway on the 15th and final hole, setting up a two-putt birdie to flip the match and give Los Angeles the victory.<\/p>\n Theegala twice hit tee shots out of play, and hit another drive into a bunker that kept L.A. from reaching the green in two on a par 5. He also missed a 3-foot putt that cost his team a point. But he wound up hitting a winner.<\/p>\n Jupiter led 5-4 going to the par-5 closing hole and LA threw the hammer, meaning the hole was worth two points. Theegala ripped his drive into the fairway to set up a second shot to 35 feet. Kisner’s tee shot just tricked into the rough, he found the rough on his second shot and a wedge came up short of the green. His birdie chip from 20 feet to tie the hole — and win the match — narrowly missed.<\/p>\n Jupiter had taken a 3-2 lead after alternate shot involving all three players through nine holes.<\/p>\n L.A. won the first two holes of singles for the lead, only for Kisner to hit driver onto the green at No. 12 after Theegala had gone into a hazard. That tied the match at 4.<\/p>\n Jupiter regained the lead at 5-4 when Justin Rose<\/a> three-putted from long range. Kim hit his tee shot on a par 3 to 6 feet and Jupiter threw the hammer. LA accepted, meaning if it lost the hole it would lose the match. Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> responded with a tee shot to 4 feet for matching birdies.<\/p>\n That sent it to the 15th and final hole, and Theegala’s length — and accuracy — was the difference.<\/p>\n If Jupiter was to win Match 2 on Tuesday night, Match 3 would follow immediately after at the SoFi Center.<\/p>\n Woods, 50, underwent lumbar disk replacement surgery in October. He also ruptured his left Achilles last March.<\/p>\n The 15-time major winner hasn’t played in an event since the Open Championship at Royal Troon in 2024.<\/p>\n He’s been mum on his status for next month’s Masters, noting last week: “I said I’ve been working on it. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Disk replacement is not a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 24, 2026, 12:06 AM ET Tiger Woods will be back swinging a golf club competitively Tuesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-541772","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\/541772","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=541772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1633027_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nAs he has been throughout the TGL season, Tiger Woods played the coach\/manager role for Jupiter Links during its match Monday night against L.A. That, however, will change Tuesday when Woods plays for the first time this year.\u00a0James Gilbert\/TGL\/TGL Golf via Getty Images<\/p>\n