THE BLOGTiger is on schedule
Tiger Woods entered the room with a slight limp and unwavering determination to play the U.S.Open. Woods spoke Tuesday at Congressional Country Club. The second annual edition of Woods’ own PGA Tour event, the AT&T National, returns to Congressional in July.
The U.S. Open will be at Torrey Pines in San Diego on June 12-15, a major that could prove a bit dicey for the world’s No. 1 player following a two-month layoff. Woods had hoped to fine-tune his game this week at the Memorial, but he withdrew and has no plans to play in next week’s Stanford St. Jude Classic in Memphis, Tenn.He had surgery on the same knee in 2002 and returned to win his next event, the Buick Invitational, which happens to be at Torrey Pines. “I know what it takes to win a tournament coming back off after having a procedure done, and it is just a matter of being prepared, getting all my practice time in, making sure my shots are how I want them, trying to understand what my misses might be,” Woods said.The current problems with the knee result from “more stiffness than anything. He said he made the decision to have the surgery two to three weeks before playing the Masters in April.
As for his own tournament, Woods hopes to build off last year’s successful inaugural event by again paying tribute to the military. Tickets will remain a bargain ($25), and he hopes to announce a Washington-area location for a Tiger Woods Learning Center by early next year. Woods, however, left the future of the tournament in some doubt. Congressional has agreed to host the event in 2009, but the following two years have been ruled out because of an overhaul to the Blue Course in preparation for the 2011 U.S. Open.
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