“There is no timetable for this and that’s been the hardest mindset adjustment is that I don’t know”. “Where’s the light at the end of the tunnel?” he asked rhetorically.
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“It’s not what I want to have happen, and it’s not what I’m planning on having happen”, Woods said of the possibility of his playing career being over.
“I’ve taken the initiative with the kids, and told them up front, ‘Guys, the reason why we’re not in the same house, why we don’t live under the same roof, Mommy and Daddy, is because Daddy made some mistakes, ‘ ” Woods said.
Woods said he would rather not risk more back surgery, having spoken with National Football League star quarterback Peyton Manning about his neck surgery and recovery methods.
While Woods is known for his athletic physique and obsessive workout regime, he admitted he has only been able to “walk…and I walk and I walk some more”.
What is your reaction to what Tiger Woods said at his press conference? “‘Tiger, you’re supposed to be dead.’ I just saw him”, Finchem said. “That’s it. Then I come back home and lie back down on the couch, or a bed”. So I’ve had a pretty good career for my 20s and 30s. “I really do miss it. But if that’s not the case anymore, then I’ll find other avenues, that being growing my foundation, golf course design and other projects I have going on right now that will certainly take up more of my time”. “I’m just walking, and that’s it”, he explained. His last Major win remains the US Open in 2008 when he won a play-off against Rocco Mediate at Torrey Pines just before requiring knee surgery that would keep him out for the rest of that season. He says it has been two months since he hit a golf ball – “a chip shot left handed” – and that he passes most his time playing video games.
Tiger Woods is unsure whether he will ever return to professional golf, the BBC reports.
As it turns out, Tiger Woods’ father, Earl Woods, once laid out where Tiger would be at the end of his career following the 1995 Amateur Championship at Newport (R.I.) Country Club.
“I have no answer for that”. I got to know these guys are on a different level and have been lot of fun over the years. Woods endured leg injuries in 2011, got back to No. 1 in the world with eight victories in 2012 and 2013 and has been in a free fall because of back injuries since. “I told him, ‘Tiger, I thought you were supposed to be dead'”.
A year ago, Spieth won this tournament by 10 strokes over Henrik Stenson when the event was played in Florida. Golf without him doesn’t bear thinking about.
Davis Love III has already chosen Woods as one of his assistants for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine next year.
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Off the course, Woods said his relationship with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren is now “fantastic” following their divorce in 2010 after revelations about his infidelities.
