Tiger Woods is not closing the door on Augusta, but disc replacement recovery keeps reminding him why that door is so difficult to open. At the TGL S2 presser, he dropped a fresh statement and held nothing back when asked what he thinks of his Masters appearance.

“Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days,” Woods said. “Disc replacement is not a lot of fun. I have good days when I can pretty much do anything and other days when it’s hard to just move around,” he told the media.

He said recovery takes time and that his body doesn’t heal as it used to. That assessment is crucial when you look at what Woods has been through. He had disc replacement surgery on October 10, 2025, roughly seven months after repairing a ruptured left Achilles tendon, undergoing two major procedures within a year.

And the 50-year-old himself acknowledged, “The body doesn’t quite heal like it was when I was 24.”

On whether he could feature in TGL matches before the Masters, Woods was just as straightforward.

“I have been trying to play each and every one of these matches,” he said. “I’ve been trying to come back. But it just hasn’t worked out that way. I’ve had a bad run of injuries last year.”

Despite being sidelined, Tiger Woods has attended every Jupiter match this season. The team was going to play the Los Angeles Golf Club in a best-of-three SoFi Cup series starting on March 23.

The 2024 PNC Championship, which he played with his son Charlie, was his last competitive round. The 2024 British Open was his last PGA Tour start.

(this is a developing story…)