Tiger Woods made a visit to Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership on Saturday, maybe an indication that the 15-time main champion intends to tee it up on the Masters on April 11.
Woods, 48, could be making his twenty sixth Masters look. The five-time Masters champion can break a event file along with his twenty fourth consecutive made lower after tying Gary Participant and Fred {Couples} final yr. Woods withdrew earlier than the rain-delayed third spherical resumed final yr after aggravating plantar fasciitis in his proper foot.
Radaratlas2, a flight-tracking account on X, famous on Saturday morning {that a} Gulfstream G550 jet that Woods owns was about to land in Augusta, Georgia.
Woods has performed just one full aggressive spherical on the PGA Tour this season. He withdrew after six holes of the second spherical on the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Nation Membership exterior Los Angeles on Feb. 16 due to the flu.
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It was the 82-time PGA Tour winner’s first begin in an official PGA Tour occasion in additional than 10 months. He had surgical procedure on April 19 to handle post-traumatic arthritis in his proper ankle that was attributable to accidents suffered in a February 2021 automotive wreck.
Woods did play 72 holes on the Hero World Problem, a event he hosted within the Bahamas in early December and completed 18th out of 20 gamers.
Woods had beforehand acknowledged that he hoped to play in a single event per 30 days if his well being would enable it. He did not enter the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Gamers Championship earlier this month.
Woods performed in a one-day Professional-Member event at Seminole Golf Membership in Juno Seashore, Florida, in early March. He reportedly performed with Yasir Al-Rummayan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, within the Bahamas earlier than Woods and different PGA Tour coverage board participant administrators met with PIF officers a couple of potential funding.
Since returning to skilled golf after the automotive wreck, Woods has withdrawn or missed the lower in 4 of his six begins. His two finishes had been a tie for forty fifth within the 2023 Genesis Invitational and a solo forty seventh within the 2022 Masters.