Golf: Still no timetable for Tiger return
Tiger Woods still has no timetable for a return to tournament golf.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Tiger Woods still has no timetable for a return to tournament golf, saying he still has "good days and bad days" with his surgically repaired back.
Speaking Tuesday at the unveiling of his design for a new course in Missouri, Woods sounded resigned to the uncertainty.
"The back is progressing. I have good days and bad days," the 14-time major champion said. "I ve had three back operations and that s just kind of the nature of the business, unfortunately. That s all I can say."
Woods, who hasn t played since withdrawing from the Dubai Desert Classic on February 3 with ongoing back spasms, hit a couple of shots in public for the first time in months.
His first found the water.
"The second shot I stiffed it, so ..." said Woods, who briefly returned to competition in December after missing all of the 2015-16 season in the wake of back surgery.
At his first PGA Tour event after a 17-month absence, at Torrey Pines in January, he missed the cut. He then withdrew in Dubai after a first-round 77.
The project announced on Tuesday in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri will include the first public access golf courses designed by Woods s TGR Design.
The course is slated to open in 2019 and will be named "Payne s Valley" in honor of the late golfer Payne Stewart, who was born in Springfield, Missouri.
