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Tiger Woods celebrated his 50th birthday on Tuesday, a milestone which means he is now eligible to join the PGA Tour Champions alongside other golf veterans.
The 15-time major champion remains among the sport’s greatest attractions despite being plagued by injuries over the past decade and a half.
Woods has competed in just 11 PGA Tour events since a serious car crash in February 2021. He is currently recovering from his seventh back surgery and has yet to reveal whether will play on the Champions tour.
He would join dozens of other ageing giants – including Fred Couples, John Daly, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh – who compete over 54 holes and can use carts at most events outside the majors.
Woods, who is now dating Vanessa Trump, has made a number of botched comebacks in recent years and last season marked the first time in his career that he didn’t compete in a single PGA Tour tournament.
The 50-year-old, whose son Charlie is a rising star of high school golf, ruptured his left Achilles tendon in March while training ahead of the Masters. Then, in October, Woods went back under the knife to replace a disk in his lower back.
Woods has helped his son Charlie win two state championships in three seasons with The Benjamin School. The 16-year-old’s coach recently lifted the lid on both father and son during an interview with the Daily Mail.
But earlier this month, the 15-time major champion gave a concerning update on his own game.
Woods revealed that his recovery from back surgery is not going ‘as fast as I’d like it to be’.
‘I’d like to come back to just playing golf again,’ he said. ‘I haven’t played golf in a long time. It’s been a tough year. I’ve had a lot of things happen on and off the golf course that’s been tough. And so my passion [is] to just play, I haven’t done that in a long time.’
