Tiger Woods not ready to play in key TGL regular-season finale

Tiger Woods will not be in the lineup for his TGL team, Jupiter Links GC, when it plays its regular-season finale Tuesday against The Bay Golf Club.

Jupiter sits in fifth place in the six-team standings, one point out of the playoff cut line. A win against Bay would be enough to advance.

But the lineup will feature Max Homa, Kevin Kisner and South Korea's Tom Kim. They'll be up against Wyndham Clark, Sweden's Ludvig Aberg and Australia's Min Woo Lee for Bay.

Woods is in position to miss the entirety of the second season of the indoor simulator golf league he co-founded with Rory McIlroy. Should Jupiter qualify for the playoffs, it will play a semifinal match March 17 with the finals taking place the following week.

The 15-time major champion slowly continues to recover from a torn Achilles in March 2025 and a seventh back surgery in October. In January, he explained why he wasn't ready to compete in the TGL format.

"I'm moving up to short irons, so that's about it," Woods said. "I need a little bit more than that to be able to play (on TGL). At my speed right now, I could probably play the Stinger hole. Just kind of roll it off the tee. But no, I'm progressing, which is nice. I'm getting there and getting stronger. It's just one of those things where it just takes so much time for the bone to heal and the bone to set."

But when he spoke to reporters at the Genesis Invitational last month, Woods didn't rule out playing in the Masters in April and said he was able to hit full shots now.

"Not well every day, but I can hit them," Woods said.

--Field Level Media