LOS ANGELES– Tiger Woods is beginning a brand-new year with a make over.
Simply not a various color.
Woods makes his 2024 launching today in the Genesis Invitational at Riviera, a signature occasion on the PGA Tour for which he is the competition host. The very first agenda is revealing what he described in December as the next “chapter.”
Woods and Nike ended 27 years together at the end of in 2015. He used the swoosh on his t-shirt for the last time at the PNC Championship that he had fun with his boy, Charlie, who was using clothing from a various garments business.
Woods had a press conference arranged for Monday at 5:30 p.m. PST outside evictions of Riviera to discuss what he will be using in the minimal competitions he plays.
All indications indicate TaylorMade. Woods currently plays their golf clubs, and TaylorMade Lifestyle Ventures has actually submitted 4 hallmark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Sunday Red” or “SDR.”
Woods revealed on Jan. 8 that his relationship with Nike, which produced a lot of huge minutes on the golf course and in commercials, had actually formally ended. His representative at Excel Sports Management, Mark Steinberg, stated he anticipated “an interesting statement” at Riviera.
Woods has actually been teasing the statement on social networks just recently. He published a closeup of his face a week ago Monday that stated, “The vision stays the exact same.” On Friday, he published a dark photo of him using a red t-shirt that stated, “A brand-new day increases.”
Woods was not at Riviera ahead of the statement. Different advertising posters for the competition and with the Tiger Woods Learning Center reveal him with the swoosh.
Woods has actually used some variation of red on Sunday his whole profession due to the fact that his Thai-born mom, Kultida, informed him it was his power color. She likewise offers him a brand-new head cover of a tiger each season with words in Thai that state, “Love from Mom.”
Secret to that is getting to Sunday. Woods played all 4 rounds of the informal Hero World Challenge in December, his very first competitors in almost 8 months while he recuperated from ankle surgical treatment after the Masters.
Woods made it in the rain-delayed Masters however withdrew on Sunday early morning before finishing the 3rd round due to the fact that of his injuries. He likewise made it at the Genesis Invitational in 2015, connecting for 45th.
As a signature occasion, the Genesis Invitational brings a $20 million bag, with $4 million to the winner. Unlike the other signature occasions, since it’s a player-hosted competition, the Genesis Invitational will have a 36-hole cut to the leading 50 and ties, and any gamer within 10 shots of the lead.
Whatever the makeover, it will not show up as it when was. Woods currently was coming off 4 back surgical treatments, the last one to fuse his lower spinal column, when he had an auto accident in Los Angeles in the days after the 2021 Genesis Invitational.
He didn’t play the remainder of the year. In the middle of issues he may never ever play once again, Woods recuperated to play in the 2022 Masters and made it to Sunday. He has actually never ever missed out on the cut at Augusta National as a pro.
Woods had his ideal ankle merged after in 2015’s Masters and felt positive about 2024. He has actually set an objective of playing when a month through the significant season. That begins at Riviera.
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