Tiger Woods to start 2018 season at Torrey Pines in his first official PGA Tour event for a year
The 14-time major winner will play Farmers Insurance Open and also at Riviera following latest comeback from injury
Tiger Woods is playing twice in California over the next six weeks as he begins another comeback on the PGA Tour from back surgery.
Woods announced he will play the Farmers Insurance Open on January 25 at Torrey Pines, the San Diego course where he has won eight times. That includes the 2008 US Open, his 14th and most recent major.
He also says he will play the Genesis Open at Riviera in Los Angeles that starts on February 15. Riviera is where Woods played his first PGA Tour event as a 16-year-old amateur. He last played in 2006, though it now is back in play because the Tiger Woods Foundation runs the tournament.
“I’m very excited to be back at Riviera,” Woods said. “To be able to play in an event that I used to come to as an amateur, as a junior and now as the tournament host, that is on one of the most historic sites in all of golf, it’s a dream come true.”
The schedule is similar to the one last year when Woods was returning from back surgery. It just did not last long.
He played in the Bahamas against an 18-man field with no cut, said he was feeling good about his health and his game, and then resumed a PGA Tour schedule at Torrey Pines. But he missed the 36-hole cut for the first time in San Diego, flew to Dubai and withdrew after opening with a 77 because of back spasms.