Jordan Spieth: Tiger Woods still has plenty to offer – Jordan Spieth

There is no timetable that’s the hardest part for me. “It’s literally just day by day and week by week and time by time”.

The field includes Adam Scott, Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Zach Johnson and India’s Anirban Lahiri.

The golfing icon will reach the landmark birthday at the end of this month, but it is now safe to assume it won’t signal the start of bigger and better things to come.

-He came to know the late Seve Ballesteros when the Spaniard was working with Butch Harmon and they would spend time together in Houston.

“Was it a surprise?” “Then we’d go play till dark”.

“Knowing Tiger the way I do, I feel sorry for him”.

“Come to find out it wasn’t my hip, it was coming from my back”.

He had another microdiscectomy on Sept 16 and then he revealed he had another “procedure” on Oct 30 in the same spot. “Because I’ve always been a goal setter”, Woods said.

“It’s more important for me to be with my kids”. He was ranked No. 1 in the world for a staggering 623 weeks. Others will never forgive him for cheating on his wife, as if he were the only player in the history of the PGA Tour to do that.

“I want him back healthy and I want him playing again”.

When asked about a timescale for any return, Woods replied: “I have no answer for that”. “There is no timetable”.

‘Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? This is a new day and this is taken for what it is.

“I’m just walking, and that’s it”, Woods said, adding that “it’s different from the other surgeries I’ve had in the past”. And now he can’t play well, poorly or at all, which has to be especially galling as he watches 20-somethings like Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth dominate the way he did not long ago.

Scott first played a practice round with Woods on the Sunday before Woods headed off to Pebble Beach for the 2000 U.S. Open, which he won by 15 shots.

But now Woods has become nothing more than yesterday’s man, a fallen idol with nothing more to fill his time than playing video games on his console that he actually still stars in. Woods has had such a successful career that it’s hard to see him mentally giving up. There was plenty of time to win five more majors to beat Jack Nicklaus’s record, or four more, or at least two or three more if he really slowed down. “We both know that the most important things in our lives are our kids”, he told Time magazine of the 35-year-old. “I think he’s still got some really good years left out of him”. “I can’t stand it. But also comfortable enough where you can wear flip-flops, which I like”.

“I’ve passed Jack (Nicklaus, 73) in the all-time win list, just shy of Sam (Snead, 82)”.

“I’m hoping I can get out here and compete against these guys”.