{"id":854245,"date":"2026-03-27T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854245\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:00:22","slug":"donald-trump-drops-bombshell-tiger-woods-masters-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/854245\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump drops bombshell Tiger Woods Masters update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods will not be playing at the Masters this year, according to US President Donald Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woods<\/a>, 50, revealed recently that he has been eyeing a return to Augusta National, and that he plans to attend Rory McIlroy’s Champions Dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Woods returned to competitive golf action this week and wants to play at the MastersCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The 15-time Major champion made his season debut earlier this week when he featured in the TGL finale<\/a>, having spent months recovering from back surgery<\/a> in October 2025.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve been trying,” he said of a Masters<\/a> return after that appearance.<\/p>\n

“This body just doesn\u2019t recover like it did when I was 24 or 25. I want to play.<\/p>\n

“I love the tournament. I love being there since I was 19 years old. I\u2019m going to be there either way.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE ON GOLFDonald Trump shares bombshell Tiger Woods update<\/p>\n

Optimism he could play, though, has quickly been extinguished by President Trump.<\/p>\n

In a passing remark to Fox News, he suggested Woods will not be in the mix to win the coveted gold jacket<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n

“I love Tiger, but he won’t be there,” Trump said on The Five, when asked who he will be rooting for at Augusta National.<\/p>\n

“He’ll be there, but he won’t be playing in it.”<\/p>\n

The US president did not reveal the source of his Masters intelligence.<\/p>\n

Woods is currently dating Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Trump’s oldest son, Donald Jr.<\/p>\n

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President Trump has revealed Woods will not compete at Augusta NationalCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

The couple were seen together at Tuesday’s TGL finale at SoFi Center in Florida, where Jupiter Links GC were beaten on the golf legend’s return to action.<\/p>\n

Woods, Tom Kim and Max Homa suffered a 9-2 loss at the hands of Los Angeles Golf Club in match two of the finals, and missed out on SoFi Cup glory.<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods admits he ‘got his a** kicked’ on golf return<\/p>\n

Speaking afterwards, Woods said it felt good to be back, but added Jupiter Links were outclassed by the trio of Justin Rose<\/a>, Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> and Sahith Theegala.<\/p>\n

“We got our a** kicked at the end,” he admitted.<\/p>\n

“It felt great to be back here with these guys\u2026 it was a great team, I’m frustrated that we didn’t get it done.<\/p>\n

“It feels good to be back but I’d have liked it to be in better circumstances.<\/p>\n

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Woods admitted he got his butt kicked in the TGL finaleCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“But that’s the way sports is — you put yourself out there, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And you deal with it.”<\/p>\n

Woods had just nine swings in his TGL appearance, which marked his first competitive action since tearing his Achilles in March 2025.<\/p>\n

It was a small, but perhaps significant, step back onto the competitive stage after a string of injuries and surgeries.<\/p>\n

The icon last teed it up in outdoor competition in July 2024, when he missed the cut at the Open Championship, and previously suggested he could make a late decision over a Masters return in April.<\/p>\n

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Woods won the Masters in stunning fashion seven years agoCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“I don’t know, we’ll see how it goes,” Woods said.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be practicing playing at home this week and keep trying to make progress.”<\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

President Trump, though, has seemingly let the cat out of the bag, and any Woods appearance at Augusta National will likely be in a non-playing capacity.<\/p>\n

Stay up to date with the latest from golf across all platforms – follow our dedicated talkSPORT USA Facebook page<\/a> and subscribe to our talkSPORT USA YouTube channel<\/a> for all the news, exclusives, interviews and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods will not be playing at the Masters this year, according to US President Donald Trump. Woods,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4106],"tags":[243555,32,243558,243560,2826,4366,243565,4286,7240,243562,243561,5229,108259,4298,79,232787,4297,4320,243563,243559,243564,243566,10412,243556,16,15,208301,243557],"class_list":["post-854245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-2026-masters","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-tiger-woods","tag-donald-trump-vanessa","tag-golf","tag-golf-news","tag-is-tiger-woods-playing-the-masters","tag-masters","tag-masters-champions","tag-masters-champions-dinner","tag-masters-field","tag-masters-golf","tag-pga-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-tgl-golf","tag-the-masters","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tiger-woods-at-the-masters","tag-tiger-woods-girlfriend","tag-tiger-woods-injury","tag-tiger-woods-injury-latest","tag-tiger-woods-masters","tag-tiger-woods-return","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vanessa-trump","tag-will-tiger-woods-play-at-the-masters"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}