The Hero World Challenge began with a bummer – the withdrawal of Tiger Woods citing plantar fasciitis – but he was still ever-present and top of mind all week as the tournament host.
A classic Tiger exchange when it comes to the state of his health. It was more surprising that he dropped that info at all than that he refused to share the most basic details – was it his leg? Foot? Knee? Before or after the British? Inquiring minds want to know. What he did reiterate was that he’s on borrowed time. Tiger added this about his 2023 golf plans.
“The goal is to play just the major championships and maybe one or two more. That’s it,” he said. “Physically that’s all I can do. I told you that, guys, you know, the beginning of this year, too. I mean, I don’t have much left in this leg, so gear up for the biggest ones and hopefully, you know, lightning catches in a bottle and I’m up there in contention with a chance to win and hopefully I remember how to do that.
“He was somehow trying to speed up, I was looking at him like – we all looked at the official, like he can’t walk any faster, let’s be honest. Like he was already doing an amazing job trying to move up and down those hills. We all joked around with the official and then when he turned around, Tiger takes off and I’m looking at my caddie, like, well, this is incredible.”
Rahm noted that they ended up having to wait to go for the par-5 8th in two, and marveled at how Tiger disguised the pain he was in. “He puts on a bit of a show for the camera, like he’s not going to show how much he’s really hurting,” Rahm said. “When we finished scoring, just seeing him stand up and move around that room when there’s nobody watching, there’s a difference, especially after playing 18 holes and after sitting down when your legs cool off a little bit, it changes.”It’s become a December tradition to marvel at the developing golf game of Charlie Woods.
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