Tiger Woods teases comeback as he hits vary with Ryder Cup star Rickie Fowler

Tiger Woods may not be concerned on this month’s Ryder Cup however he has given golf followers an enormous enhance with hopes that he’s about to return to the course. The 15-times Major champion has not been seen in motion since he was pressured to withdraw after the second spherical of The Masters at Augusta National in April.

The 47-year-old then took the choice to go below the knife by having a subtalar fusion process in New York, with the aim of fixing an issue attributable to a earlier fracture of a bone in his ankle joint (talus).

Woods hoped to have the ability to play within the different Majors of the season however he has missed the PGA Championship, US Open and Open Championship at Hoylake while recovering from surgical procedure, ruining his season.

But on Tuesday (September 12) it was reported that his golf bag had confirmed up on the Liberty National Golf Course in New Jersey, the place Woods’ basis is internet hosting a charity occasion this week.

The bag wasn’t there for no motive. Videos quickly emerged on social media of Woods on the driving vary, doing ‘keep-ups’ with a ball, utilizing one among his irons.

He was joined on the vary by Rickie Fowler, who after a latest upturn in type has made it into Zach Johnson’s Ryder Cup workforce, and Will Zalatoris, who has seen his personal season blighted by harm issues after additionally withdrawing from the Masters.

The solely sightings of Woods on a golf course since his August nightmare have been in help of his son Charlie at junior occasions. Until now.

As of but, there isn’t a suggestion that Woods is able to make a PGA Tour return, however Golf Week speculates that he might presumably compete within the father or mother/little one PNC Championship alongside his son on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, which is scheduled for December 16-17.

One place Woods will not be is in Rome on the Ryder Cup later this month. The American has appeared in eight earlier occasions however his general document of 13 wins, 21 losses and three halves is a mediocre one.

However, Team USA captain Zach Johnson has already stated that though Woods is not going to be current on the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club, he’s successfully ‘on name’ for the US workforce.

Johnson instructed the Associated Press: “Tiger is very much a part of Team USA and has been for years. He is, for lack of a better term, on call with us. He is very much in the know as to what we’re trying to do.

“We’re going to make the most of his knowledge and he is passionate in regards to the Ryder Cup. He needs he could possibly be right here, but it surely’s simply not within the playing cards for him bodily. And that is effective. I imply, he’s with us. He’s simply not right here bodily.”

Despite accidents and the most effective days of his profession clearly behind him, Woods stays the largest title in golf and his return to the course will probably be as hotly anticipated because it ever has been.