Fifteen-times major winner Tiger Woods said he did not care whether competing in this weekend's PNC Championship would set back his recovery from injury, so long as it means he can compete alongside his son Charlie.
Woods withdrew ahead of this month's Hero World Challenge after developing plantar fasciitis and told reporters on Friday at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida, that progress was slow."It's just one of those things where I need rest and I haven't exactly been doing that."
While he conceded that the injury could impact his plans for 2023, he insisted that competing alongside his 13-year-old son was his top priority - even if it means he may spend more time recovering later."Being there with and alongside my son is far more important, and get to have a chance to have this experience with him is far better than my foot being a little creaky."
The pair finished second in the 36-hole tournament a year ago to twice major winner John Daly and his son, John Daly II, in what was Woods' first competitive golf just 10 months after a devastating car accident that nearly cost him his leg. He produced a comeback for the ages when he made the cut at the Masters just months later, an extraordinary achievement despite finishing near the bottom of the leaderboard.struggled at the British Open"There's some of the players who are very close to me know what I've kind of gone through, and they're the ones that keep encouraging me to back off a little bit.
"Whether it's at home or it's couple years ago in our first competitive environment," said Woods, "those are memories and those are things that we still talk about."Read Next / Editor's Picks
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