Mended Woods and son to play PNC tournament
Ten months after his right leg was badly damaged in a car crash, Tiger Woods is returning to competition next week with 12-year-old son Charlie in the PNC Championship.
“Although it’s been a long and challenging year, I am very excited to close it out by competing in the PNC Championship with my son Charlie,” Woods tweeted. “I’m playing as a Dad and couldn’t be more excited and proud.”
It will be his first competition, even in a tournament Woods described last week as the “hit-and-giggle” variety that he can play, since he and his son tied for seventh a year ago in the unofficial event that pairs family members.
The tournament was holding a spot for Woods, and he fueled speculation he might play the Dec. 18-19 event at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club Orlando when he took full swings with a driver on Saturday and Sunday during his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
Woods was heading to Rolling Hills Country Club for a television shoot on Feb. 23 when police say he was driving about 85 mph along a curvy Palos Verdes Peninsula highway. The SUV crashed through a median and plunged down a hill.
Doctors said he shattered the tibia and fibula bones in his right leg in multiple locations. Those were stabilized by a rod in the tibia.
Foster showed signs of mental instability during a court appearance, records show, and a judge ordered him held for an evaluation just hours before he died in custody. It was still a mystery Wednesday exactly what caused Foster’s death and Alabama state police said they were investigating.
He played two seasons for the New Orleans Saints at defensive end, appearing in 17 games in 2013 and 2014.
Outside linebacker Zach Cunningham was waived by the Houston Texans after his second suspension for violating team rules this season . ... Seattle Seahawks star safety Jamal Adams will miss the rest of the season after suffering a torn labrum in his left shoulder, coach Pete Carroll said . ... Mark Pike, a Bills special teams standout during Buffalo’s AFC championshipwinning runs in the 1990s,
died following a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 57 . ... New York Jets rookie wide receiver Elijah Moore is dealing with a quadriceps injury that could sideline him for the game against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday . .... Justin Fields is set to return to the Chicago Bears’ lineup after missing two games because of broken ribs . ... Washington put Montez Sweat on the NFL’s COVID-19 reserve list after the third-year pass rusher tested positive for the coronavirus . .... Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow said his injured pinkie finger on his throwing hand won’t keep him out of Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Atlanta Hawks forward Solomon Hill is expected to miss the rest of the season with a hamstring injury, adding to the team’s growing lack of depth on the wing.
The City of Glendale informed the Arizona Coyotes that it intends to lock the team out of Gila River Arena by Dec. 20 if all outstanding debts to the city and the management company for the arena are not paid . ... The Pittsburgh Penguins said that the star forward Jake Guentzel is “week to week” with an upper-body injury.
The Dodgers’ triple-A team at Oklahoma selected right-hander Carson Fulmer from Cincinnati with the 39th and final pick of the triple-A phase of Major League Baseball’s annual draft of unprotected players.
Brazilian soccer great Pele was hospitalized in Sao Paulo to continue his colon tumor treatment. Hospital Albert Einstein said in a statement that 81-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento is “stable and expected to be released on the next few days.”
U.S. women’s gymnastics high-performance director Tom Forster is stepping down at the end of the year. USA Gymnastics announced that Forster will leave his position Dec. 31.
USC wide receiver Drake London, whose junior season ended Oct. 30 after fracturing an ankle against Arizona, said on Twitter that he will enter the 2022 NFL draft.
Thanks to major pledges from local business leaders Brian Panish and Mickey Segal, the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation said a California High School Football Hall of Fame will be built at the Rose Bowl with plans to open in late 2022.
Al Franken, primarily known for promoting the Sunkist Invitational indoor track meets at the Sports Arena for decades, has died. He was 96. Franken also promoted meets in San Diego and San Francisco.