Woods’ Manager Insists Don’t Lose Your Mind Over Tiger’s Wells Fargo Absence.

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The long-time manager to 15-time Major winning Tiger Woods has played down Tiger’s much talked about absence from this week’s Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in North Carolina.

Since 5pm last Friday (US time) when entries closed for the $7.9m event there has been more talk about the one player who is not teeing-up than the combined 156 players actually teeing-up in suburban Charlotte.

Woods has not competed on the PGA Tour since capturing a fifth Masters green jacket and in electing not to tee-up this week, Woods will probably not to the May 16th commencing PGA Championship at Bethpage Park on Long Island.

Woods did speak about his Masters victory last Thusday in an interview with GolfTV but for those who watched Woods walk into the room it was probably as colleague, Bob Harig rightfully suggested and that was Tiger entered the studio as though ‘he was walking on ‘hot coals’.

On Friday, we saw Tiger hitting practice balls on the Medallist range with caddie, Joe LaCava by his side and with nothing untoward.

It prompted Bob (Harig) to ask Mark Steinberg, and Woods’ manager, why Tiger is not competing this week at the Wells Fargo.

“Nobody should lose their mind over this,” said Steinberg.

“Tiger requires some down time and he doesn’t feel he has enough time to get ready.”

If Woods does not compete in next week’s AT & T Byron Nelson in Dallas, Texas it will be only the fourth occasion he has not competed in a regular Tour event in between a Major Championship.

In 1999, Woods skipped the three tournaments between The Open and the PGA but did capture his second major championship at Medinah.

Seven years later in 2006, Woods did not compete between the Masters and the U.S. Open due to the ailing health and death of his father, Earl; Woods missed the cut at the U.S. Open, the first time in his pro career that he missed a cut in a major.

In 2008, Woods famously won the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines after not playing following the Masters due to what was described as minor knee surgery and was later revealed to include two fractures in his leg.

And in 2013, Woods was troubled by an elbow concern at the U.S. Open that forced him to miss the AT&T National — a tournament he hosted — and The Greenbrier prior to The Open and where he finished T6th at Muirfield in Scotland.

 



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