Golf-Woods To Make PGA Tour Return At Riviera – News18

Tiger Woods will make his first aggressive begin of 2024 at subsequent week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club, the 15-instances main winner mentioned on Wednesday.

Woods, who will function a participant-host for the Feb. 15-18 PGA Tour occasion that advantages his basis, introduced his resolution on social media.

The Genesis Invitational is among the PGA Tour’s eight Signature Events this 12 months and options each a midway lower and $20 million purse, together with $4 million for the winner.

This will mark Woods’ first official PGA Tour begin since final 12 months’s Masters, the place he withdrew earlier than the third spherical and later had fusion surgical procedure on his proper ankle.

After sitting out most of 2023, Woods marked his return to skilled golf on the finish of November in an unofficial PGA Tour — the Hero World Challenge — which featured a restricted discipline and no lower.

Two weeks later, Woods competed along with his son Charlie on the PNC Championship, which is a 36-gap occasion that includes two-participant groups made up of a serious champion and a member of the family.

When Woods introduced in January that he had ended his a long time-lengthy partnership with Nike, he closed his assertion with the phrases “See you in LA!”, which steered he was planning to play the Genesis Invitational.

Last 12 months at Riviera, Woods went one underneath par via 4 rounds and completed in a share of forty fifth place.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)