As is his custom, using his website, Tiger Woods announced the conclusion of his rehabilitation from microdiscectomy surgery and released his future competitive golf schedule. Woods will play in the Safeway Open in Napa California to open the 2017 PGA Tour season October 13-16. Woods said he also intends to play the Turkish Airlines Open in November and his Tiger Woods Foundation-sponsored Hero World Challenge in December.
“It was difficult missing tournaments that are important to me, but this time I was smart about my recovery and didn’t rush it,” Woods said.
That may be the truest statement Woods has ever released. It’s been one thing after another with him for his entire career, particularly since 2009 and the revelations of sex scandals with porn stars, prostitutes, and a seemingly endless indiscriminate string of buxom women.
You’d think he thought he was ordering them off a buffet table.
Woods hasn’t played since September of 2015 (the Wyndham Championship) when he had back-to-back back procedures. Unlike earlier injuries, Woods did not attempt to comeback in time for majors, something which may have contributed to his recurring problems.
“It was difficult missing tournaments that are important to me, but this time I was smart about my recovery and didn’t rush it,” Woods said.
Woods fueled speculation last year when he candidly admitted to golf writer Robert Thompson of the Toronto Globe and Mail that he didn’t think he’d break Jack Nicklaus’s record of 8 major championship.
