Tiger Woods eyes Masters return with competitive golf outing at TGL
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Sahith Theegala birdied the final hole, giving Los Angeles Golf Club two points and a 6-5 comeback win over Jupiter Links Golf Club in the first match of the title series on Monday.
The best-of-three set concludes on Tuesday night with the second match and, if necessary, the decisive match.
Woods has been serving as an adviser and unofficial cheerleader for his TGL team while working his way back from lumbar disc replacement surgery in October and a left Achilles tendon rupture that occurred last spring.
The back operation was the seventh Woods, 50, has undergone.
The last time Woods participated in a full-fledged golf event was when he missed the cut at the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland.
Asked last week about playing at the Masters next month, Woods said, “I said I’ve been working on it. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Disc replacement is not a lot of fun.
“… So as I said, I’ve had a lot of procedures prior to that, so the body doesn’t quite heal like it was when I was 24. Doesn’t quite bounce back. So I have good days when I can pretty much do anything, and other days where it’s hard, to just, to move around.”
On Monday, Jupiter’s team of Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner led 3-2 after nine holes of triples play against the Los Angeles team of Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Theegala.
In singles, Rose beat Homa, and then Fleetwood topped Kim to put LA up 4-3. Theegala topped Kisner, and then Rose defeated Homa as Jupiter went back in front 5-4.
After Fleetwood and Kim halved their hole, it came down to Theegala vs Kisner. With the hammer thrown, doubling the value of the hole, Theegala reached the green in two on the par-5 15th hole, and he got the birdie. Kisner’s chip-in attempt from off the green would have halved the hole and given Jupiter the victory if it had gone in, but it came up short.
In the inaugural TGL finals last year, the Atlanta Drive GC swept New York Golf Club 2-0.
