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Tiger Woods commits to the Players Championship

Tiger Woods will compete at the Players Championship
Tiger Woods will compete at the Players Championship

Tiger Woods will make his next competitive start at next month's Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the former world number one confirmed.

For Woods, who returned to competitive golf earlier this month at the Masters after taking two months off to retool his game, it marks a return to a TPC Sawgrass course where he has won twice before, most recently in 2013.

"Looking forward to going back to THE PLAYERS this year, hoping for a repeat of 2013," Woods said on Twitter.
              
The Players Championship, which is the PGA Tour's flagship event and widely regarded as golf's unofficial fifth major, will be played 7-10 May.

Woods' confirmed return will dampen fears over a wrist injury he appeared to suffer during the final round at Augusta when he hit a tree root.

"A bone kind of popped out and the joint kind of went out of place, but I put it back in," he said.

Speculation over Woods' return had been circulating ever since the Masters when, following rounds of 73, 69, 68 and 73, he refused to confirm when he would be back in action.

"Not going to be for a while," he said.

"I have a little time off, and go back to the drawing board, work on it again, and refine what I'm doing.

"I really like what I'm doing, I got my distance back, and everything is good."

Jack Nicklaus said this week that Woods would feature at the Memorial at Muirfield Village beginning on 4 June but he will now be back earlier than that at a tournament that he won in 2001 and 2013.

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