Tiger Woods said at the PGA Championship that the ability to hit shots is still there but physical ailments remain.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Max Homa played two rounds with Tiger Woods last month at the Masters and wonders what it might be like for the 15-time major champion if he could just get reasonably healthy.
“I think he’s got a decent amount,” said Homa, who watched Woods shoot scores of 73-72, the latter in difficult, blustery conditions on a day in which only one player broke 70. “His golf game was incredible. Two days I played with him he hit it great. “It's not different. At that time I was maybe one back procedure into it,” Woods said of the 2014 PGA. “Now it's a hell of a lot more than that number. Back is now fused, as you know. Yeah, coming into 2014 I wasn't feeling very good. But I'm always going to feel soreness and stiffness in my back, but that's O.K. Just need other body parts to start feeling better.’’
“Yeah, I can still hit shots,” Woods said. “It's getting around is more of the difficulty that I face day-to-day and the recovery of pushing myself either in practice or in competition days. You saw it at Augusta. I was there after two days and didn't do very well on the weekend.” Last year, Woods played 72 holes at both the Genesis Invitational and the Masters but then had subtalar fusion surgery on his ankle. He didn’t play again until the Hero World Challenge, where he finished 18th out of 20 players.
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