PGA Tour: Tiger Woods Reveals Scary Injuries, Plantar Fasciitis, Hero World Challenge, Golf News

Tiger Woods’ return to tournament golf, slated for this week’s Hero World Challenge after five months of inactivity, ended before it could begin when he withdrew from competition on Monday with plantar fasciitis.

The way Woods, the host of the tournament (which benefits his foundation), spoke on Wednesday, looks like his presence as a competitor at the February Genesis Invitational, another event he hosts, is in jeopardy. New York Post reports.

Woods, who turns 47 on December 47. 30, still scheduled to play in the PNC Championship, a father-son event where he teams up with his son Charlie, on Dec. 1. 17 and 18. He also plans to play The Match, a 12-hole show with Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spit and Justin Thomas on December 1st. ten.

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He can cart ride in each of these events, which is why Woods said he could play. He said he refused to ride in the Hero cart because it was a PGA Tour sanctioned event.

Woods said he would need “maybe a month or two off” before he can think about playing in the tournament he’s about to go to.

“It was the buildup process that was to blame,” Woods said. “It’s balancing, right? How hard are you pushing him to make progress without pushing too hard to go crazy and throw yourself back two or three days?

“It was an act of balancing throughout the year. And trying to do that, to prepare for this event, I walked a lot on the beach, trying to imitate the local sand, and my foot didn’t really like it.”

Woods called it “a difficult decision just because I want to play”.

“I like to play, I like to compete, but unfortunately I can hit a golf ball and do whatever you want, I just can’t walk,” he continued. “So I had a few setbacks over the course of the year that I could still sort of get through, but this one I just can’t. Only time can cure it, stay on your feet and do a lot of healing.”

Woods said the plantar fasciitis is related to damage to his foot from a car accident two years ago.

“As I gained momentum and had to walk more, it got worse,” he said. “When you have plantar fasciitis, the worst thing you can do is walk, and I walked more and more, trying to prepare my feet for this event, and I only got worse. I can hit golf balls, but it hurts to walk.”

Woods said that all he hopes for in the future is the opportunity to play in four major championships “and maybe one or two more” tournaments.

“That’s physically all I can do,” he said. “I don’t have much left in this leg. So get ready for the biggest ones and hopefully you know that lightning ignites in a bottle and I’m fighting for a chance to win and hopefully I remember how to do it.”

This article originally appeared on New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.

Originally published as Tiger Woods opens up about injuries two years after horrific car crash