Tiger Woods is seen hitting a golf ball for the primary time since having ankle surgical procedure in April… as he practices his swing forward of potential end-of-year return at PNG with son Charlie

Tiger Woods has been noticed training his swing at Pebble Seaside, as he bids his comeback to aggressive golf after spending half a 12 months on the sidelines following ankle surgical procedure in April.

The 47-year-old had golf followers in a frenzy on Saturday night after footage of the previous World No. 1 hitting balls went viral on social media. 

Woods was seen final month caddying for his younger son, Charlie, 14, on the Final Probability Regional. 

He was additionally on a apply vary juggling golf balls and hitting chip pictures together with Rickie Fowler and Will Zalatoris in September.

However within the newest video of the 15-time main champion, Woods could be seen hitting a wedge shot to a par-3 gap. 

Tiger Woods was seen hitting a wedge shot to a par-3 gap in a video shared on X on Saturday

Woods’s new golf league, TGL, can be proven by ESPN within the US, it was introduced this week

The footage was initially posted by TGR Reside after which it was instantly shared by the PGA Tour and TWLegion.

Within the video, Woods is sporting a patterned hat and shirt with gray pants and shades. 

His highly-anticipated return to aggressive golf has been earmarked for December on the PNC Championship. Woods hopes to play on the event along with his teenage quickly, Charlie. 

Walt Disney’s ESPN clinched the U.S. broadcast rights for TGL, a brand new primetime golf league created by Woods and Rory McIlroy, it was introduced this previous Thursday. 

TGL fuses know-how and stay motion in a two-hour match format and options 18 PGA Tour gamers break up into six groups, one among which is owned by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and his tennis Corridor of Fame spouse Serena Williams.

ABC will broadcast a preview present on December 30, whereas the inaugural match will air on ESPN community and ESPN+ streaming service throughout prime time on January 9, the night time after the School Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship.

TGL fuses know-how and stay motion in a two-hour match format and options 18 PGA Tour gamers break up into six groups, one among which is owned by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and his tennis Corridor of Fame spouse Serena Williams.

Woods has tipped December because the month for his aggressive comeback to play along with his solely son, Charlie, 14, on the PNG Event

In the meantime, Davis Love III urged earlier this week that Woods is subsequent in line to captain the Individuals on the Ryder’s Cup, which they misplaced for a seventh-straight time on the street this 12 months. 

Woods, who has performed in eight Ryder Cups, competing in 37 matches and ending with a profession document of 13 wins, 21 defeats and three halves, was nowhere close to Rome for this 12 months’s version of the event. 

He is persevering with to recuperate from nagging accidents stemming from arthritis, which he developed after a critical 2021 automotive crash. 

Since then, the Corridor of Fame Golfer has struggled to stroll round PGA-sponsored programs. 

He sustained a number of leg accidents and had surgical procedure for life-threatening accidents within the wreck from just a little over two years in the past in Rancho Palo Verdes, California.