The American Tiger Woods expressed his happiness on Friday to return to playing golf with his son Charlie, with whom he will compete the weekend in the PNC Championship event, although he recognized the limitations he suffers from injuries from his accident.
Tiger, 45-year-old and Charlie, 12, jumped onto the field at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, on Friday for a pre-event warm-up, the first one Woods will play after his serious car accident in February.
“It was a great day. It was great to come back here and be with my son. A real joy, “declared the former world number one after the practice.
“Unfortunately it has been a tough year in which I have not been able to play. This is the second or third round that we share but (I’m glad) to be able to play and have this experience with him, “he said.
This event, in which a score of winners of Grand Slam tournaments They compete as a couple with a relative, it was the last one Woods played before the collision.
In December 2020, Tiger competed for the first time with his son Charlie, who then attracted all the spotlight for his game and swing, very similar to that of his famous father.
Tiger is still in rehab for his multiple right leg fractures and on Friday he described the physical difficulties he faces on his return.
“I’m starting to try to play again, so I don’t have the stamina that I would like to have,” he pointed. “The swing is not that powerful, I still don’t have the speed. It is what it is. The ball doesn’t fly that far.”
“We work every day, even the days when I did not feel very well (…) Apart from the three months that I was in bed, I have not taken a day off, “he stressed.
The winner of 82 PGA tournaments, 15 of them Grand Slam, He reiterated that he is still “very far” from thinking about going back to compete with the best of the circuit.
“I still have a long way to go to go through in this rehabilitation process, “he said.
“But this is different,” he said, referring to the PNC. Championship. “This is a fun event. You have guys with 80 years playing.”
Like other legends, like veteran Gary Player, Tiger will use a golf cart for the weekend to get around the course, an aid that I would not request in an eventual participation in a regular tournament.
“Absolutely not. I’m not like that and if I can’t play at that level, I can’t play at that level “, settled.
Tiger also addressed the early comparisons to little Charlie, one of the great incentives of your participation in the event.
“I didn’t have that speed at that age. I was probably a little taller than Charlie but very thin. ” described Tiger, who stressed that at the moment the priority of the young man is not golf.
“I am his father, not his coach. If he wants to learn the game of golf well, but my job is to be a father and make sure that the priorities are correct, that the school comes first, “he stressed.
The American Tiger Woods expressed his happiness on Friday to return to playing golf with his son Charlie, with whom he will compete the weekend in the PNC Championship event, although he recognized the limitations he suffers from injuries from his accident.
Tiger, 45-year-old and Charlie, 12, jumped onto the field at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, on Friday for a pre-event warm-up, the first one Woods will play after his serious car accident in February.
“It was a great day. It was great to come back here and be with my son. A real joy, “declared the former world number one after the practice.
“Unfortunately it has been a tough year in which I have not been able to play. This is the second or third round that we share but (I’m glad) to be able to play and have this experience with him, “he said.
This event, in which a score of winners of Grand Slam tournaments They compete as a couple with a relative, it was the last one Woods played before the collision.
In December 2020, Tiger competed for the first time with his son Charlie, who then attracted all the spotlight for his game and swing, very similar to that of his famous father.
Tiger is still in rehab for his multiple right leg fractures and on Friday he described the physical difficulties he faces on his return.
“I’m starting to try to play again, so I don’t have the stamina that I would like to have,” he pointed. “The swing is not that powerful, I still don’t have the speed. It is what it is. The ball doesn’t fly that far.”
“We work every day, even the days when I did not feel very well (…) Apart from the three months that I was in bed, I have not taken a day off, “he stressed.
The winner of 82 PGA tournaments, 15 of them Grand Slam, He reiterated that he is still “very far” from thinking about going back to compete with the best of the circuit.
“I still have a long way to go to go through in this rehabilitation process, “he said.
“But this is different,” he said, referring to the PNC. Championship. “This is a fun event. You have guys with 80 years playing.”
Like other legends, like veteran Gary Player, Tiger will use a golf cart for the weekend to get around the course, an aid that I would not request in an eventual participation in a regular tournament.
“Absolutely not. I’m not like that and if I can’t play at that level, I can’t play at that level “, settled.
Tiger also addressed the early comparisons to little Charlie, one of the great incentives of your participation in the event.
“I didn’t have that speed at that age. I was probably a little taller than Charlie but very thin. ” described Tiger, who stressed that at the moment the priority of the young man is not golf.
“I am his father, not his coach. If he wants to learn the game of golf well, but my job is to be a father and make sure that the priorities are correct, that the school comes first, “he stressed.
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