Tiger back on turf after eight months
LOS ANGELES – Eight months after winning the US Open on one good leg, a healthy Tiger Woods is returning to golf.
Woods said on his website on Thursday he will defend his title next week in the Accenture Match Play Championship, believing his reconstructed left knee and his game were good enough to win.
“I’m now ready to play again,” Woods said.
The Match Play Championship in Tucson, Arizona begins on Wednesday.
Players whom Woods has beaten so often while compiling 65 US PGA Tour victories were happy to hear he was coming back.
“He was ready to go weeks ago,” Stuart Appleby said at Riviera. “I don’t think he needs to do a couple of laps around the track. He’ll be on that horse and he’ll be whipping it.”
The timing for Woods to end his 253-day break from competition could not be better for the US PGA Tour, which has seen television ratings and media attention plunge after the world’s No. 1 player missed the second half of the season. (AP)
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