Tiger Woods will hope to roll back the clock as the four-time PGA Championship winner aims to repeat the trick at Valhalla Golf Club. (More Sports News)
The former wor💃ld number one has won four of his 15 major titles at this even🅘t, including triumphing in the 2000 edition at Valhalla.
Woods managed to make a record-breaking 24th consecutive cut at The Masters last month, though tail𝓡ed off in the last two rounds to finish 60th – finishing last of players to reach the weekend.
Despite those latter-round struggles, the 48-year-old believes the potential is still there for a 16th major title, 𝓡with his last coming at Augusta back in 2019.
"I still feel that I can win golf 🐟tournaments," Woods said at Tuesday's press conference. "I stil🍃l feel I can hit the shots and still feel like I still have my hand around the greens and I can putt.
"I just need to do it 📖for all four days, not like I did at Augusta for only two.
"It's getting around that is more🐓 of the difficulty that I face day-to-day and the recovery of pushing myself either in practice or in competiti﷽on days.
"You saw it at August💮a✨ – I was there after two days and didn't do very well on the weekend."
The 2024 Masters was just the fourth time since November 2020🐻 that Woods has completed all four rounds of a tournament, owing to repeated injury struggles.
He remains confident his body will hold up this time around, though, as♏ Woods attempts to recreate his Valhalla-winning heroics from 2000.
"My body's okay," saidღ Woods, who joins Adam Scott and Keegan Bradley for the first round at the PGA Championship on Thursday. "It is what it is. I wish my game was a little bit sha🐽rper.
"Again, I don't have a lot of competitive repsꦯ, so I am having to rely on my practice sessions and gettꦺing stuff done either at home or here on-site.
"A⛦t the end of the day, I need to be ready mentally and physica🧜lly come Thursday.
"One of the reasons I came up here on Sunday was to knock off some of the work that I have to do in charting greens, get all that stuff done early, so I can focus on literally playing and plotting my waꦜy around.
"I wouldn't say the walk is that difficult. I know it's a long walk, it's a bi🤪g piece of property. This is a big golf course and if you get in the rough here, things could get a little bit sore, but if I drive it well and do the things I need to do – what I did 24 years ago – hopefully it works."
Aside from his major plans, speculꦕation continues over Woods captaining Team USA for the 2025 Ryder C🍌up in New York.
The 15-time major champion&nb🙈sp;says his focus ♉remains on personal performance, with time limited to also fulfil that role.
"We're still talking," Wꦜoods added. "There's nothing that has been confirmed yet. We're st♉ill working on what that might look like. Also whether or not I have the time to do it."
