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Tiger Woods is set to make his dramatic return to competitive golf on Tuesday night as rumors swirl about whether he will be healthy enough to compete at the Masters in a few weeks.
Woods will compete in the Golf League Finals for Jupiter Links, he told ESPN. The legendary golfer will compete in Game 2 of the best-of-three series against Los Angeles. Jupiter lost Game 1 against Los Angeles, making Woods the club’s last hope for survival.
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Max Homa, not pictured, and Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club smile on the 14th hole during the match against Los Angeles Golf Club at the SoFi Center on March 23, 2026 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (James Gilbert/TGL/TGL Golf via Getty Images)
Should Jupiter win, match 3 will begin immediately after.
The 50-year-old leads the Jupiter Links golf team but has sat out the entire year recovering from back surgery last fall. He also ruptured his Achilles last March.
Woods suggested he could be back in time for the Masters, saying in February that it wasn’t necessarily off the table. The iconic golf major begins on April 9.
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Tiger Woods and Akshay Bhatia of Jupiter Links GC during action against Boston Common Golf during TGL match at SoFi Center on March 17, 2026 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (GREG LOVETT/PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Last week he got a little more honest about his back injury.
“I said I’ve been working on it. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Changing discs is not very fun,” he told Golf.com. “So Will Zalatoris went through it, he got two levels done, and it takes time. So like I said, I’ve had a lot of procedures before that, so the body doesn’t quite heal like it did when I was 24. It doesn’t quite bounce back. So I have good days where I can pretty much do anything, and other days where it’s hard to just move around.”
It will be interesting to see if Woods can break through in The Golf League. He has not played an event since the 2024 British Open.
Kevin Kisner was forced to step in for Jupiter on Monday night against Los Angeles’ Sahith Theegala. Kisner replaced Akshay Bhatia as an alternate as Bhatia prepared for the Hero Indian Open in New Delhi on the European Tour.
Tiger Woods of the United States lines up a putt on the 1st green during day two of The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course on July 15, 2022 in St Andrews, Scotland. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
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Theegala found the fairway at the right time and made a two-putt birdie on the final hole to give Los Angeles a 6-5 win.
