If it\u2019s December, it\u2019s time for the Hero World Challenge, the Tiger Woods-hosted 20-man tournament in the Bahamas that caps off the golf year. Woods\u2019 foundation is a beneficiary of the event, and Woods himself holds a press conference at the start of every tournament week.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for fans of Woods, those press conferences in recent years have tended to be ever-more-grim updates on Woods\u2019 ever-more-fragile health. Woods hasn\u2019t played on the PGA Tour since his appearance at the 2024 Open Championship. Earlier this fall, he underwent yet another back surgery that will keep him off the course for an indeterminate length of time.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI need time to figure this out with my back and with my body,\u201d Woods said Tuesday morning. \u201cAs I start to get more explosive and start to rotate and see what I’ve got, then I can find out or assess what tournaments I could play in, how much I should play, where I would like to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the past, Woods has indicated that he\u2019ll pare his schedule back to a few select events, including majors and significant tournaments on the PGA Tour. He\u2019s also played the PNC Challenge with son Charlie, and competed in the debut season of TGL, the indoor golf league, but indicated Tuesday that both of those are off the table for now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just started to chip and putt, I just started to lift in the gym, I just started this process. A disc replacement takes time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s not as long as a fusion, thank God, but it’s going to take time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woods noted that he\u2019d spent significant time watching the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage, including conversations with most of the U.S. team. But when asked if he\u2019d be interested in the 2027 captaincy at Adare Manor, he said, \u201cNo one’s asked me about it.\u201d Asked directly about the captaincy, he repeated his same line.<\/p>\n
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Over the course of several questions, Woods delved into the thorny matter of the PGA Tour\u2019s future \u2014 specifically, the idea of scarcity weighed against the need to sustain and increase revenue while satisfying sponsor and broadcast obligations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re trying to give the fans the best product we possibly can, and if we’re able to give the fans the best product we can, I think we can make the players who have equity in the Tour, we can give them more of that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the financial windfall could be fantastic for everyone who’s involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a member of the Tour\u2019s Future Competition Committee, Woods has a significant role in shaping the future direction of the Tour, whatever direction that might be. \u201cWe’re trying to figure out what is the best schedule possible so we can create the best fields and have the most viewership and also the most fan involvement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI know I’m not really saying a whole lot, but I’m trying to say as much as I possibly can because there’s so many moving parts to this and it changes all the time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt all starts with the best tour on the planet, which is ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked why he wanted to mount another comeback, Woods was more contemplative than his past conquer-everything self. \u201cI’d like to come back to just playing golf again,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven’t played golf in a long time. It’s been a tough year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it\u2019s December, it\u2019s time for the Hero World Challenge, the Tiger Woods-hosted 20-man tournament in the Bahamas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[196574,1430,196575,1456,62,10130,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-420589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-david-cannon","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-hero-world-challenge","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tiger-woods","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115652682245961514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}