Tiger Woods is set to complete his first full golf tournament since the Genesis Invitational in February. The 47-year-old successfully finished the first three rounds of the Hero World Challenge on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He will look to keep that trend rolling with the final round on Sunday.
It is not a guarantee. Tiger Woods is hurting “everywhere” and continues to push through the pain.
However, based on how the greatest golfer of all-time arrived to Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas, there is no way that he is not getting it done. The Big Cat looked like an absolute hoss. He’s shredded.
Woods entered the final round tied for 16th at even par alongside Viktor Hovland in a field of 20. While his scorecard may not jump out off of the page when Scottie Scheffler is in the lead at 16-under, for him to even finish 72 holes (plus the pro-am, so really 90) is impressive.
After finishing with a 3-over 75 on Day 1, Woods recorded back-to-back under-par rounds for the first time in three years on Day 2 and Day 3. He shot 2-under on Friday and 1-under on Saturday.
Woods said that he is very excited with how he has felt physically. The goal was to knock off some rust and get through the weekend. Game speed is different than home speed, so it was nice for him to get some action with the pressure and strain of a tournament environment.
He had done all of his training and recovered from surgery to fuse his ankle back in April. It was still an unknown in regard to walking as much as he has over the last few days.
Woods arrived to Sunday’s final round looking strong. Golf is better when he is playing!