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Nassau, Bahamas Local resident Justin Rose reckons Tiger Woods could not have picked a better location and venue to end a 465-day competition absence at this week’s Hero Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods, as host of the event, managed to twist the arm of organisers of the £STG 2.8m event and tee-up in the elite 18-player field and in what will be his first event since sharing 10th place at the 2015 Wyndham Championship. And given the way Woods has hit the ball in practice and also during yesterday’s ...

Nassau, Bahamas … Tiger Woods has ruled accepting the role of USA Ryder Cup Captain by stating:  “Until my career is almost done’. If that is the case, and if Woods remains healthy, it would seem we won’t see lead a USA Team at the earliest until 2022 in Rome when Woods would be aged 46 or maybe more appropriately in 2024 when the event will be staged at Bethpage Park on Long Island. “I would love to honoured being selected as a Ryder Cup captain but I know it won’t be ...

Nassau, Bahamas Tiger Woods embarks this week on what he has described as phase two of his career. It will have been an absence of 465 since he last teed-up in competition when he finished T10th at the 2015 Wydnham Championship at Greensboro. Off-course, phase two has already involved unifying all his brands under the TGR logo. But on-course phase two, he says, could all depend on how his back stands up to the rigours of competition. “As far as how much golf I’m going to play, I don’t ...

Nassau, Bahamas …. Tiger Woods joked during a 9-hole practice round today he’s turning into a mechanic having to adjust his new M2 TaylorMade driver. This was after the sight after his drive went left into a desert-like waste area at 13th where Woods pulled out a tool to adjust the loft of the driver, and something he is allowed to do but only in practice. “TaylorMade must have sent me about 50 new models of the M2 driver and a selection of heads, and they tell me they’re bringing ...

Nassau, Bahamas …. Olympic Games gold medal winning Justin Rose handed Tiger Woods a huge confidence lift ahead of his return to competition at this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. They duo were joined former New York Yankees baseball legend, Derek Jeter and fellow World Series winning Tino Martinez for a nine-hole practice round over the inward nine of the Ernie Els designed course.   Woods was clearly very relaxed in the company of the three and aside from an errant ...

Tiger Woods clearly drew further strength ahead of his return to golf later this week by playing a nine-hole practice round today alongside to MLB baseball legends on the Hero World Challenge host course at the Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas. They duo were former New York Yankees baseball legend, Derek Jeter and fellow World Series winning Tino Martinez. Jeter, 42 is a five-time World Series champion and was instrumental in the Yankees’ success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  He also is the ...

Nassau, Bahamas ….. Tiger Woods delivered the first strong indication his game is up-to-shape ahead of ending a 15-month injury related absence at this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. Woods teamed with Rio Olympic Games gold medal winning Justin Rose, who has been a resident on the exclusive Albany estate for two-and-a-half years, and with both players in shorts for nine holes of this week’s host Albany Club course. Woods was clearly very relaxed and aside from an errant drive ...