Tiger Woods has withdrawn from this week’s Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, saying he’s “simply not prepared” to take action.
Monday’s announcement comes lower than every week after his mom, Kultida, handed away. Woods didn’t give a trigger for her demise when he delivered the unlucky information through social media on Feb. 4.
“I deliberate to tee it up this week, however I’m simply not prepared. I did my finest to organize, realizing it’s what my Mother would have wished, however I’m nonetheless processing her loss,” Woods stated in a publish on X.
“Due to everybody who has reached out. I hope to be at Torrey later within the week and recognize the continued kindness since my Mother’s passing.”
I deliberate to tee it up this week, however I’m simply not prepared. I did my finest to organize, realizing it’s what my Mother would have wished, however I’m nonetheless processing her loss.
Due to everybody who has reached out. I hope to be at Torrey later within the week and recognize the continued… pic.twitter.com/HP45Tla3QQ
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) February 10, 2025
Kultida was by her son’s facet to the very finish. She attended her son’s TGL match on Jan. 27, through which Jupiter Hyperlinks defeated Boston Widespread in time beyond regulation. Cameras even caught a hilarious interplay between Tiger and Kultida throughout pre-game warmups.
“Hello, Mother!” Woods yelled.
“Not gonna suck tonight! Okay?”
Woods has taken time away from the sport to grieve the lack of a cherished one earlier than.
His father, Earl, handed away on Could 3, 2006, lower than a month after he tied for third at The 2006 Masters. Woods then took six weeks off, making his subsequent begin at Winged Foot for the U.S. Open. He subsequently missed the reduce that week, doing so at a significant for the primary time in his profession.
However in typical Woods style, he bounced again at Royal Liverpool the next month to win the Open Championship for the third time. He dominated Hoylake, and when he putted out on the 18th inexperienced, he couldn’t assist however let all of his feelings out.
“I’ve by no means completed that. You realize me. So it’s simply, I suppose, all of the issues that we’ve gone by way of of late, and I suppose I’m sort of the one who bottles issues up slightly bit and strikes on, tries to take care of issues in my very own approach. I simply want he might have seen it yet one more time,” Woods stated then.
“I used to be fairly bummed out after not profitable The Masters, as a result of I knew that was the final main he was ever going to see. In order that one was that one harm slightly bit. And at last to get this one, and it’s simply unlucky that he wasn’t right here to see it.”
For Woods to withdraw from this week’s Genesis Invitational is kind of comprehensible, contemplating how shut he was along with his mom. He’ll doubtless attempt to make his PGA Tour debut at this 12 months’s Masters, which begins Apr. 10.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By. Comply with him on X @jack_milko.
