This may sound stale but Tiger Woods is returning to golf. He returned to the PGA in 2010 after the scandal and his subsequent marital breakup then had to leave and return due to injury. Now, with his July 28, 2011 announcement on his website that he will be in the field to compete at this week upcoming WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, Tiger is back again.
“Feeling fit and ready to tee it up at Firestone next week. Excited to get back out there!” Woods said on his twitter account. So with his knee and hip injuries behind him - he'd said that this time he was going to make sure they were in the past - Woods will work to get back to form and begin a new assault on professional golfs biggest records.
Tiger Woods: Left Knee, Achilles Tendon Healed
The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is a sanctioned event of the World Golf Championships and a great choice for Woods to make a return. Since it began in 1999, the year Tiger broke out with 8 tournament wins and over $6.5 million in earnings, Tiger has won Bridgestone seven times (no other golfer has won it twice). He won in it in 1999-2001, 2005-2007 and in 2009.
The story on his website is brief - only 190 words, (this story is already 227) - and has only one quote from Tiger: "I'm excited to get back out there." The majority of the information details Woods' two injures, he sustained a "mild medial collateral ligament strain" to his left knee and aggravated a "strained left Achilles tendon". Both injuries are healed and have stood the test of going back to practice swings.
Woods Up Against Jack Nicklaus
Woods has not won a tournament since returning to action after the sex scandal and has had some poor finishes, the worst, his 78th place finish at last year's Bridgestone Invitational. Many feel his game will not be the same ever again and that he has been eclipsed by the abundance of young, talented golfers such as Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Martin Kaymer and Dustin Johnson.
Woods has 71 career tour victories, third all-time behind Jack Nicklaus' 73 and Sam Snead's 82, and 14 major wins, second to Nicklaus' 18. He was once considered a lock to take the lead in both categories but is now considered, at least by many golfing pundits, a long shot.
