HRGolfGuide.com Tiger’s Blog: Returning to Riviera BY TIGER WOODS


I can’t tell you how excited I am to be able to host and play in the 2018 Genesis Open at Riviera. Unfortunately, last year my back was in bad shape and I was unable to participate.


What a difference a year makes. I had fusion


surgery last April and recently competed in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, my first full-field event in a year and only my second since August of 2015. I finished T23, and all in all, it was a very positive start.


It felt so good to be back with the guys and compete again. Words can’t describe how much I missed it. Most importantly, I was pain-free.


I am fired up to return to Riviera. I first attended the tournament when I was 9 or 10,


my dad took me there. We went a few more times and then I tried to qualify a couple times.


The second time I tried to qualify to


play Riviera, I was 15 and we played the South Course at Los Serranos Country Club. It was a moment I will never forget. I was playing the best round of my life and was 8-under par through 17 holes, thinking I was actually going to qualify for a PGA TOUR event. The head pro came up to me and said, “I have to tell you, because I know it’s going to change how you play this last hole,” which was a par-5 with a second shot over water. “There are already two guys at 10-under


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