Tulsa, Okla. – a tiger wood Preparing to try to win his fifth PGA Championship this week, he said his surgically repaired right leg is stronger than it was at the Masters five weeks ago, when he struggled to climb the steep hills of Augusta National Golf Club, one of the most demanding walks in golf.
Woods, 46, played his second nine-hole training session at the Southern Hills Country Club on Monday after playing in the ninth lead on Sunday. His last PGA Championship win occurred at Southern Hills in 2007.
“It’s only going to get stronger,” Woods told reporters on Sunday. “The more I use it, the more powerful it is. Will I ever have the ability to move? No. Never. But I will be able to get stronger. It will hurt, but that’s the way it will be.”
Woods, the 15-time main champion, flew to Tulsa in late April for a practice tour. Southern Hills underwent an $11 million renovation by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in 2018. Woods wagon Joe LaCava flew to Florida last week to work with him.
Woods struggled on his return to competitive golf at the Masters, the first time he’s played on a regular tour since he was badly injured in a car wreck outside Los Angeles in February 2021. He cut at Augusta National, then finished 47th after shooting for a 6-Over 78 in each of the last two rounds, his worst result was in the Masters. He admitted he was in pain after his weekend tours.
With his PGA Championship win, Woods became the best golfer on the PGA Tour with 83 career victories.
“I’m so excited [the week]Woods said. I won’t be playing much in the future, so any time I play it will be fun to play and compete. There are only so many money games that you can play at home.”
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