(CNN)Tiger Woods is attend, competing on a golf course for basically the major time since a automobile break that crushed his leg in February.
Woods is competing along with his 12-three hundred and sixty five days-feeble son, Charlie, within the $1 million PNC Championship on the Ritz-Carton Golf Club Orlando, Grande Lakes in Florida, this weekend. The match is a two person, 36-gap opponents partnering champions with their kinfolk.
The pair, known for his or her identical mannerisms from their swing to their celebrations, made a birdie putt — one stroke beneath par — on basically the major gap.
“Even if it has been a prolonged and fascinating three hundred and sixty five days, I’m very wrathful to shut it out by competing within the @PNCchampionship with my son Charlie,” Woods stated on Twitter. “I’m taking half in as a Dad and couldn’t be extra wrathful and proud.”
A tall crowd surrounded the myth as he teed off, cheering him on and welcoming him attend after he used to be critically injured when the Genesis SUV he used to be riding veered off the avenue in February.
On Friday, Woods and Charlie spent the day on the course ahead of the match.
“It used to be an agreeable day,” Woods told newshounds Friday. “It used to be merely agreeable to be out here taking half in and be out there with my son, and we merely had an absolute blast.”
Woods, the winner of 82 PGA Tour titles, including 15 significant championships, stated he peaceful has the hands and the texture for the game, but endurance is the largest scenario for the reason that damage that brought on a pair of fractures to his merely leg.
“Unfortunately, this three hundred and sixty five days has been very laborious, and I hadn’t been in a location to play the least bit till, I converse this would be my second or third spherical this three hundred and sixty five days. So it has been a prolonged three hundred and sixty five days.”
Woods ragged a golf cart to get spherical the course Friday, which no golfer is allowed to contrivance on the PGA tour.
“I’m a prolonged manner faraway from taking half in match golf,” Woods stated. “Right here’s hit, hop in a cart.”
The golf celebrity stated that after spending three months in bed, he labored day by day to play again.
In an unfamiliar interview with Golf Digest last month, Woods stated his days as a fats-time golfer are over.
“One thing that’s realistic is taking half within the tour at some point, by no manner fats time, ever again, but draw shut and get hold of, merely admire Mr. (Ben) Hogan did,” Woods told interviewer Henni Koyack.
“Steal and get hold of about a events a three hundred and sixty five days and you mess spherical that. You be conscious spherical that, and you tools your self up for that. And you play. I converse that’s how I could include to play it to any extent extra.”
Father and son had their match debut on the 2020 PNC Championship, ending seventh with attend-to-attend 62s.
Justin Thomas and his father Mike gaze to change into the fourth duo to successfully shield the PNC Championship title after winning last three hundred and sixty five days.
CNN’s Andy Sholes, Patrick Sung and John Sinnott contributed to this document.
