Tiger Woods is ready: Four-time champion returns to golf at PGA Championship
Tiger Woods is ready: Four-time champion returns to golf at PGA Championship
Tiger Woods is set to return to golf next week at the PGA Championship, as the PGA of America announced the course for his second major of the year.
The tournament will be held from May 16th to 19th at Valhalla Golf Course. Woods has won the tournament four times during his career, in 1999, 2006, 2006 and 2007.
A total of 156 players will participate in the tournament, and the PGA of America will nominate 154 names. The other two places will be sent to the winners of Wells Fargo Championship and Murl Beach Classic. The tournament field contains 16 former winners and 33 major winners. In addition to Woods, the current champion Brooks Coepka, Rory Makilra and the current world, Scotti Sheffler, will also participate in a prestigious tournament. The land also includes Talor Gofl Golf Golf GOOCH, which won the individual individual title from last season.
PGA of America has been level headed in their approach to LIV Golf players after it was announced in the June last year that LIV and PGA would merge to become one single entity.
Gooch has been extended an special invitation to play in the major as he doesn’t qualify under the regular qualification process which requires high ranking in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) or winning on the PGA Tour. In particular, LIV golf players do not receive points from the LIV tournament, so the ranking in OWGR does not improve. However, some of the LIV players have qualified for this year’s PGA championship based on previous victory, such as Koepka and Phil Mickelson. Several LIV players also qualify to play in Valhalla after strong performances in other major tournaments in recent years, including Jon Rahm winning the 2023 Masters and Dustin Johnson winning the 2020 Masters are doing.
