Tiger Woods will join son in 2022 PNC Championship as 15-time major winner added to December schedule

After playing just nine rounds in the first 11 months of 2022, Tiger Woods is poised to play seven more in the next three weeks. Woods has officially committed to competing at the PNC Championships on December 16-17 in Orlando with his son, Charlie. This marks the end of a three-week period during which Tiger will take part in the World of Heroes Challenge (organized by his organization), The Match (with Rory McIlroy and against Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas). ) and finally the PNC.

Tiger and Charlie finished second in 2021 at the PNC Championship behind John Daly and his son, John II, despite being nine seconds behind by Woods on day two of the two-round event. It was an exhibition tournament that somehow turned into one of the funniest days of the golf year.

It is true that Woods’ next seven rounds will not be played with anything close to the intensity of his previous nine – four at masters, three at the PGA Championship and two at the Open Championship in St. Andrews — but still a little surprised to see Woods tee off so often during golf’s quietest season. Each event makes sense in a vacuum, but overall, it’s a lot of golf for someone still recovering from a nearly severed wound in a car crash in early 2021.

It’s also encouraging for those who want to see more Woods in 2023. We’ll speculate on his schedule at a later date – perhaps after seeing what he looks like in these three events. — but it’s hard to picture Woods, other than a setback, playing three shows in late 2022 and then sitting out the biggest events of the competitive golf year in 2023. At the very least, very it is possible that Woods will play at least if not all four major championships.

That was then, though, and this is now. In the shadow of the (admittedly) short golfing season, Tiger will be an exciting match and a lot of fun to watch, perhaps most of all at the PNC Championship. Because seeing him at The Hero alongside Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler and at the Match Against McIlroy, Thomas and Spieth will be great to watch his son imitate a father (who is also the best of the best). used to do that) at this event for the third year in a row is probably going to be the funnest of them all.