{"id":36957,"date":"2026-07-15T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36957\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:13:09","slug":"tiger-woods-to-return-to-golf-for-first-time-since-julys-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/36957\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods to return to golf for first time since July&#8217;s British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Tiger Woods (46) said Wednesday he would be returning to action at the Hero World Challenge in what will be the golf great&#8217;s first tournament since the British Open in July.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-time major champion posted a Twitter message confirming his involvement in the 20-man tournament, where he is the host, at the Albany course in the Bahamas, from December 1-4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/woods-tiger\/jcA2kkj7\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woods<\/a>, a five-time winner of the event, is joined by American compatriot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/kisner-kevin\/hYjRwHzF\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Kisner<\/a> (38) and England&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/fleetwood-tommy\/Svq63qoo\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> (31) in completing the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to announce that I will be in the field for this year&#8217;s #HeroWorldChallenge,&#8221; Woods said. &#8220;A big welcome to @K_Kisner and @TommyFleetwood1 for joining us as well. See you soon at Albany!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week has seen Woods caddying for son Charlie this week and he recently said he intended to take part in &#8216;The Match&#8217;, a 12-hole exhibition, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/mcilroy-rory\/djwanksN\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a> (33), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/spieth-jordan\/p0739Ny4\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Spieth<\/a> (29) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/thomas-justin\/jV7EtuiD\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Thomas<\/a> (29) on December 10 in what could be a busy finish to a restricted 2022 schedule following his recovery from a career-threatening car crash.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is set for the weekend before the PNC Championship in Orlando where Woods has previously played alongside Charlie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/woods-tiger\/jcA2kkj7\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woods missed the cut at this year&#8217;s British Open at St Andrews<\/a>, having twice won the sport&#8217;s oldest major at the Scottish course in 2000 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old has appeared in just three professional tournaments this year, all of them majors.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, who needed screws and metal rods to hold together his shattered right leg, made his return to competition 14 months after the accident at this year&#8217;s Masters.<\/p>\n<p>He finished 47th at Augusta but achieved a victory of sorts simply by walking 72 holes over the difficult layout.<\/p>\n<p>He then withdrew from the PGA Championship after 54 holes, struggling with stamina issues after making the cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods (46) said Wednesday he would be returning to action at the Hero World Challenge in what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1474],"class_list":["post-36957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hero-world-challenge","tag-hero-world-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}