After enjoying simply 9 rounds over the primary 11 months of 2022, Tiger Woods is poised to play seven extra within the subsequent three weeks. Woods has formally dedicated to play the PNC Championship Dec. 16-17 in Orlando with his son, Charlie. This marks the top of a three-week stretch by which Tiger will have performed the Hero World Challenge (which his basis hosts), The Match (alongside Rory McIlroy and towards Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas) and eventually the PNC.
Tiger and Charlie completed second in 2021 on the PNC Championship behind John Daly and his son, John II, regardless of a scorching second 9 from the Woods’ on the second day of the two-round occasion. It was an exhibition match that someway became some of the enjoyable days of the golf yr.
It’s true that Woods’ subsequent seven rounds will not be performed with something close to the depth of his final 9 — 4 on the Masters, three on the PGA Championship and two on the Open Championship at St. Andrews — nevertheless it’s nonetheless a2 bit stunning to see Woods tee it up this usually throughout golf’s quietest season. Each occasion is smart in a vacuum, however on the entire it is loads of golf for any person who continues to be recovering from an almost severed leg in a automobile wreck firstly of 2021.
It must also be encouraging for those that need to see loads of Woods in 2023. We will speculate about his schedule at a later date — maybe after seeing how he seems to be in these three occasions — nevertheless it’s troublesome to envision Woods, barring a setback, enjoying three exhibitions on the finish of 2022 after which sitting out the largest occasions of the aggressive golf yr in 2023. At the very least, Woods will very doubtless play in at the least if not all 4 of the major championships.
That’s then, although, and that is now. In the darkish of the (admittedly) quick golf offseason, Tiger will be a large draw and a ton of enjoyable to watch, maybe most of all on the PNC Championship. Because whereas seeing him on the Hero alongside Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler and at The Match with McIlroy, Thomas and Spieth will be nice, watching his son emulate a dad (who can also be the very best to ever do it) at this occasion for the third yr in a row will most likely be probably the most joyful of all of them.