{"id":23342,"date":"2016-10-10T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2016-10-10T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T10:20:23","slug":"14-time-champion-tiger-woods-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/14-time-champion-tiger-woods-back\/","title":{"rendered":"14 time champion Tiger in the woods is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tiger Woods, 14 months removed from his last competitive outing, nearing his 41st birthday and in recovery from multiple back surgeries, still ignites interest like no other golfer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 14-time major champion will tee it up on Thursday at the Silverado Resort in Napa, California, in his first competitive start since a 10th-place finish at the Wyndham Championship on August 23 of 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The normally low-key Safeway Open, start of the USPGA Tour`s 2016-17 season in California`s Wine Country north of San Francisco, is suddenly the center of the golfing world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23343\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tiger-Woods-PGA-Nationals.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger-Woods\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I`m sort of glad I`m not there that week,&#8221; Northern Ireland`s Rory McIlroy said when Woods announced the projected timetable for his return in September. &#8220;It`s going to be a bit of a circus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Compared to 45 media outlets credentialed in 2015, 106 are credentialed for this year, with organizers doubling the physical size of their media center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A similar jump inTICKET SALES was expected, with some reports suggesting fans could be treated to a superstar pairing of Woods and five-time major winner Phil Mickelson in the opening rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not that Woods needs any help to draw a spotlight, and rampant speculation on just where his game might be after more than a year of painstaking rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23344\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiger-woods3.jpg\" alt=\"tiger-woods\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We`ve played nine holes together. He`s pounding it a mile and flushing everything &#8230; his trajectory and ball flight are like the Tiger we knew 15 years ago,&#8221; Sweden`s Jesper Parnevik told Golf Digest in early October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Comebacks are never a sure thing, but something tells me his might be spectacular.&#8221;Woods, who will turn 41 on December 30, might settle for steady, with no setbacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His agent slammed reports in February that Woods`s rehabilitation wasn`t going well, and that his condition had deteriorated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods, 14 months removed from his last competitive outing, nearing his 41st birthday and in recovery from multiple back surgeries, still ignites interest like no other golfer. The 14-time major champion will tee it up on Thursday at the Silverado Resort in Napa, California, in his first competitive start since a 10th-place finish at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3427,9059,9063,9060,9061,9062,9056,9058,9057],"class_list":["post-23342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-california","tag-golfing-world","tag-jesper-parnevik","tag-northern-ireland","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-ticket-sales","tag-tiger-wood","tag-uspga-tour","tag-wyndham-championship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tiger-woods.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}