Tiger Woods confirms PNC Championship appearance alongside son Charlie as comeback nears
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Updated 22/11/2023 at 17:39 GMT
As Tiger Woods' latest comeback to professional golf approaches, the 15-time major champion has confirmed he will tee it up in the 2023 PNC Championship for the fourth time alongside his son Charlie. Woods has been out of action since withdrawing from the third round of the Masters in April and undergoing surgery on his right ankle. The parent-child tournament runs from December 14 to 17.
Tiger Woods and his son, Charlie Woods, read the second green during the final round of the PGA TOUR Champions PNC Championship at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club on December 18, 2022 in Orlando, Florida.
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Tiger Woods has announced he will play in this year’s PNC Championship alongside his son Charlie as he prepares to make his latest comeback to professional golf.
The 47-year-old has been out of action since he withdrew from the third round of the Masters in April with plantar fasciitis before he underwent surgery on his right ankle.
His appearance in the parent-child tournament will be his fourth with Charlie and Woods admitted it is a “special” event.
“It is an amazing gift to be able to share my love of golf with Charlie and we genuinely do look forward to playing in the PNC Championship all year,” Woods said.
“Competing together, against a field of so many golfing greats and their families, is so special.”
Woods has struggled to put 72 holes together in tournament conditions since his career-threatening car crash in February of 2021.
He made the cut at this year’s Masters but was seen limping badly and subsequently pulled out, citing a return of his plantar fasciitis.
Woods then had surgery to fuse two bones in his right ankle together in the hope it would make it easier to walk.
There was initial optimism he could return to feature in The Open at Hoylake, where he lifted the Claret Jug in 2006, but it wasn’t to be.
Instead, his latest comeback will begin on November 30 at the Hero World Challenge, an event he hosts in the Bahamas.
He will then tee it up with Charlie at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando from December 14 to 17 in the PNC Championship.
The tournament is played over 36 holes and is for major winners or Players Championship winners.
The Woodses came seventh on their debut in 2020, before finishing second behind the duo of John Daly and John Daly II in 2021, and eighth last year.
It’s an event run by the PGA Tour Champions, which means Woods is allowed to use a buggy.
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