Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf, minus most of the walking, when he tees it up for Jupiter Links Golf Club on the last night of the TGL finals today in Florida.
Sahith Theegala birdied the final hole, giving Los Angeles Golf Club two points and a 6-5 comeback win over Jupiter Links Golf Club in the first match of title series on Monday in Palm Beach Gardens.
The best-of-three set concludes tonight, with the second match and, if necessary, the decisive match.
Woods has been serving as an adviser and unofficial cheerleader for his TGL team while working his way back from lumbar disk replacement surgery in October and a left Achilles tendon rupture that occurred last spring.
The back operation was the seventh Woods has undergone.
The last time the 50-year-old participated in a fully fledged golf event was when he missed the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland.
Asked last week about playing at the Masters next month, Woods said: "I said I've been working on it. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Disk replacement is not a lot of fun.
"So as I said, I've had a lot of procedures prior to that, so the body doesn't quite heal like it was when I was 24. Doesn't quite bounce back. So I have good days when I can pretty much do anything, and other days where it's hard to just to move around."
