Tiger Sure Seems Like He's Prepping For The PNC
/Mark Cannizzaro pieces together the comments and unavoidable sight of Tiger Woods practicing as the Hero World Challenge saw everyone limping home for a break. Except, of course, those playing in this week’s more-intriguing-than-most Shark Shootouts and the following week’s PNC parent-child event.
“Not a doubt in my mind that Tiger is playing the PNC,” Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee said Friday during Golf Central Pregame.
One factor is Woods, who needed surgery to repair a shattered ankle and two leg fractures suffered in a horrific car crash in February, doesn’t have to walk the course like a typical tournament. Also, he would be able to play with his son Charlie.
“Tiger can ride a cart, he can drive up basically to the golf ball and almost onto the green, so the walking might not be as much of a stress on the leg,” fellow Gold Channel analyst Notah Begay III, a friend of Woods and his former teammate at Stanford, said this week. “But also, he can play Charlie’s drives. I covered them for the majority of that event last year, and Charlie was hitting most of the drives because of where his tees are at, and he’s such a good ball-striker that they were taking advantage of his drives because they were much farther than where Tiger’s balls were off the tee. Those are two critical things that I think might factor into him possibly showing up in a couple weeks with Charlie. I know the world would love to see it.”
What Notah says.
