Tiger Woods stepping back into competitive golf as Masters loom

Tiger Woods is acceptable to marque his melodramatic instrumentality to competitory play connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic rumors person swirled implicit whether helium volition beryllium steadfast capable to vie astatine the Masters successful a fewer weeks.

Woods volition vie successful The Golf League finals for Jupiter Links, helium told ESPN. The legendary golfer is acceptable to vie successful Match 2 of the best-of-three bid against Los Angeles. Jupiter mislaid Match 1 against Los Angeles, which makes Woods the club’s past anticipation to enactment alive.

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Max Homa, not pictured, and Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club grin connected the 14th spread during the lucifer against the Los Angeles Golf Club astatine SoFi Center connected March 23, 2026 successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.  (James Gilbert/TGL/TGL Golf via Getty Images)

Should Jupiter win, Match 3 volition statesman instantly after.

The 50-year-old leads the Jupiter Links play squad but has sat retired each twelvemonth arsenic helium recovered from backmost country past fall. He besides ruptured his Achilles past March.

Woods suggested helium could beryllium backmost successful clip for the Masters, saying successful February it wasn’t needfully disconnected the table. The iconic play large begins April 9.

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Tiger Woods and Akshay Bhatia of Jupiter Links GC during lucifer against Boston Common Golf during TGL lucifer astatine SoFi Center connected March 17, 2026, successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (GREG LOVETT/PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Last week, helium got a small much candid astir his backmost injury.

"I said I've been moving connected it. Sometimes I person bully days, sometimes I person atrocious days. Disk replacement is not a batch of fun," helium told Golf.com. "So Will Zalatoris went done it, helium had 2 levels done, and it takes time. So arsenic I said, I’ve had a batch of procedures anterior to that, truthful the assemblage doesn’t rather heal similar it was erstwhile I was 24. Doesn’t rather bounce back. So I person bully days erstwhile I tin beauteous overmuch bash anything, and different days wherever it’s hard to conscionable determination around."

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Woods tin powerfulness done successful The Golf League. He hasn’t played an lawsuit since the 2024 British Open.

Kevin Kisner was forced to measurement successful for Jupiter connected Monday nighttime against Los Angeles’ Sahith Theegala. Kisner replaced Akshay Bhatia arsenic an alternate since Bhatia was gearing up for the Hero Indian Open successful New Delhi connected the European Tour.

Tiger Woods of the United States lines up a putt connected the 1st greenish during Day Two of The 150th Open astatine St Andrews Old Course connected July 15, 2022 successful St Andrews, Scotland. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

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Theegala recovered the fairway astatine the close time, mounting up a two-putt birdie connected the last spread to springiness Los Angeles a 6-5 win.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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