The oft-injured 15-time major winner is hoping to use the tournament as a test run before the Masters next month.
Published on 24 March 2026
Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf after skipping most of the walking for Jupiter Links Golf Club on Tuesday in the final night of the Tomorrowland Golf League (TGL) Finals in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Sahith Thegala birdied the final hole to give Los Angeles Golf Club two points and a 6-5 victory over Jupiter Links Golf Club in the title series opener on Monday.
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The best-of-three sets will conclude with a second match and, if necessary, a decider on Tuesday night.
Woods has been serving as a mentor and unofficial cheerleader for his TGL team while working back from lumbar disc replacement surgery in October and a ruptured left Achilles tendon last spring.
This was the seventh back operation for 50-year-old Woods.
The last time Woods competed in a full golf competition was when he missed the cut at the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland.
Asked last week about playing in next month’s Masters, Woods said, “I said I’m working on it. Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days. Disc replacement is not very fun.
“…So like I said, I’ve had a lot of procedures before that, so the body hasn’t healed the way it did when I was 24. It doesn’t come back properly. So I have good days when I can do almost anything, and other days where it’s hard to move around.”
On Monday, Jupiter’s team of Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner led 3-2 after nine holes of triple play against the Los Angeles team of Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Theagala.
In singles, Rose defeated Homa, and then Fleetwood defeated Kim to put LA ahead 4–3. Theegala outpointed Kisner and then Rose beat Homa as Jupiter went ahead 5–4.
After Fleetwood and Kim halved their holes, it came down to Thegala vs. Kisner. With the hammer thrown in, the hole’s value doubled, Thegala reached the green in two on the par-5 15th hole, and got birdie. Kisner’s chip-in attempt from the green would have halved the hole and given Jupiter the win if it had gone in, but it was unsuccessful.
In the inaugural TGL final last year, Atlanta Drive GC defeated New York Golf Club 2-0.
