Five-time Masters champ Tiger Woods touches down in Augusta،
Tiger Woods visited Augusta National Golf Club on Saturday, perhaps a sign that the 15-time major champion intends to play at the Masters on April 11.
Woods, 48, would make his 26th appearance at the Masters. The five-time Masters champion can break a tournament record with his 24th consecutive cut after tying Gary Player and Fred Couples last year. Woods withdrew before the rain-delayed third round resumed last year after worsening plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
Radaratlas2, a flight tracking account on noted Saturday morning that a Gulfstream G550 plane owned by Woods was about to land in Augusta, Georgia.
Woods has played just one full competitive round on the PGA Tour this season. He withdrew after six holes of the second round of the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club outside Los Angeles on Feb. 16 because of the flu.
It was the 82-time PGA Tour winner's first start in an official PGA Tour event in more than 10 months. He underwent surgery on April 19 to treat post-traumatic arthritis in his right ankle caused by injuries suffered in a February 2021 car accident.
Woods played 72 holes at the Hero World Challenge, a tournament he hosted in the Bahamas in early December, and finished 18th out of 20 players.
Woods previously said he hoped to play one tournament a month if his health allowed. He did not participate in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Players Championship this month.
Woods played in a one-day Pro-Member tournament at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Fla., in early March. He reportedly played with Yasir Al-Rummayan, governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, in the Bahamas before Woods and other PGA Tour board members met with PIF officials about a potential investment.
Since returning to professional golf after the car accident, Woods has withdrawn or missed the cut in four of his six starts. His two finishes were a tie for 45th at the 2023 Genesis Invitational and a solo 47th at the 2022 Masters.
