Tiger Woods looks fit enough to make a return to competitive golf

Hero World Challenge leaderboard
https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2018/hero-world-challenge/leaderboard.html

This week I have had several people, who never mention golf to me when we are talking sports, say something like " Hey, I see Tiger is playing again and doing good eh"

That my friends is all you need to know. It doesn't matter who else is playing, where or why. These people are not big sports fans, are from all over the world, but they pay attention when they hear about Tiger, and as a result are paying attention to golf.

So for the record with rounds of 69 68 he is at -7 down in the Bahamas at what is billed as the Hero World Challenge, and he is was five shots behind the leader who incidentally is Charley Hoffman 69 63 -12.

He's looking fit, swinging well, playing some great shots, missing a few as well and seems after a couple of rounds to be able to return to play instead of needing to recover and that is the biggest news of the week.

Hero is a burger giant in the who boast they are made with free-range, grass-fed, 100% traceable, 100% Canadian, 100% Angus beef.

A "World Challenge" is hardly the case, with 18 invited and available guys on holiday playing an exhibition with no cut. So this is all about Woods and via the Golf Channel who rely on Tiger for their ratings, his every move is being scrutinized, analyzed, but never criticized...

Heck even his caddie, veteran Joe LaCava spoke with more reporters than Hoffman after the round, and he had this to say to sum things up.

“I said at the beginning of the week, I hope he wins. It’s great for the game of golf. Hopefully, I can stop him from winning this week. But anytime he’s in contention, or even playing the golf tournaments, it brings a buzz to golf that we all need.

Bryan Angus