(AP) — Tiger Woods is just not within the area for The Gamers Championship subsequent week on the TPC Sawgrass, the ultimate yr of his exemption from profitable the 2019 Masters.
The choice was not shocking, particularly when Woods mentioned after a TMRW Golf League match earlier this week that it was solely the third time he had performed since his mom, Kultida, died all of a sudden on Feb. 4.
Two of these occasions had been at TGL. The opposite was with President Donald Trump on Feb. 9. He additionally performed within the Seminole Professional-Member on Monday.
“That is the third time I’ve touched a membership since my mother handed, so I haven’t actually gotten into it,” Woods mentioned Tuesday. “My coronary heart is just not into working towards proper now. I’ve so many different issues to do with the tour. As soon as I begin in all probability feeling slightly bit higher and begin moving into it, I’ll begin trying on the schedule.”
Woods, a two-time winner at The Gamers, has not performed the PGA Tour’s flagship occasion since 2019. He tied for thirtieth, and a month later gained the Masters for his fifth inexperienced jacket and his fifteenth main championship.
He earned a five-year exemption for The Gamers with that Masters win, getting an additional yr to account for the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Gamers was canceled after one spherical in 2020, although Woods didn’t enter as a result of he was feeling stiffness in his again.
There aren’t any particular exemptions for The Gamers. His solely means again can be by means of his efficiency this yr, or if he had been to ever play the PGA Tour Champions after turning 50 and profitable the Kaulig Corporations Championship — previously Senior Gamers — at Firestone.
If he chooses to play the Masters, it will be his first match since he missed the reduce on the British Open final July. Woods is on the checklist of gamers, and there’s no dedication deadline for him to determine to play at Augusta Nationwide.
Woods has by no means missed the reduce on the Masters as a professional, setting a match file final yr along with his twenty fourth reduce made. He had 19 appearances at The Gamers and solely didn’t make the reduce one time in 2011, when he withdrew after a 42 on the entrance 9 with a left leg damage.
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