Tiger Woods Confirms He’ll Play Memorial Tournament

Tiger Woods at Ryder Cup 2018
Tiger Woods at Ryder Cup 2018. Photo by James Marsh/BPI/REX/Shutterstock (9904201cb)

Tiger Woods will make his return to golf next week. The 44-year-old announced on social media that he’ll take part in Memorial Tournament, which is scheduled to take place at Ohio’s Muirfield Village Golf Club from July 16th to July 19th.

Woods wrote on Twitter that he’s looking forward to playing at the tournament while adding that he “missed going out and competing with the guys and can’t wait to get back out there.”

Memorial Tournament will be Woods’ first tournament since February and the final round of the Genesis Invitational. He then missed WGC Mexico Championship, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and the Players Championship due to back stiffness before the PGA Tour was suspended.

Tiger Woods previously announced that he recovered from knee surgery he underwent in August and will be fit enough to defend his Masters win from 2019. Masters will be scheduled to take place in April but was postponed until November due to coronavirus pandemic.

PGA Championship and U.S. Open were also rescheduled and will now take place in August and September respectively. The Open Championship, on the other hand, has canceled its 2020 edition.