Woods has ‘nothing to look forward to’

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

“When I didn’t have kids, it would never enter my mind”, he continued. “I am just walking, that’s it”.

Woods admitted not having a timetable for a recovery and return has been a hard adjustment.

Woods’ marriage to Elin Nordegren crumbled at the end of 2009 when he was exposed for having multiple extramarital affairs.

In the wake of Bryant’s recent announcement, Woods reflected, “You add up all those games, it takes a toll on the body”. Woods underwent microdiscectomy surgery to remove a fragment that was causing a pinched nerve in September. “I don’t think I’ll ever be 100 percent healthy, but as close as you can, that would be nice”.

All this comes from the fact Woods had an icy relationship with the media, which reading some of the things written about him over his career, I totally understand. “She’s one of my best friends”, he told Time magazine.

“We’re able to pick up the phone, and we talk to each other all the time. If I can get to that, then we can start talking about golf”. Back problems may force arguably the game’s greatest player to step away from the game. But, still, he has yet to confirm any speculation that he’s ready to officially finish his career as a professional athlete.

“Put it this way”. “The hardest part for me is there’s really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build towards”. “But if it does, it does”.

However, in the interview conducted by the respected Canadian golf writer Lorne Rubenstein, Woods did provide surprising insight into the exact scale of his ambition, by denying that Jack Nicklaus’s record major haul was always a lifetime goal. Have we witnessed his last tournament win? “He’s been a huge influence on me even though I’m only five years younger than him”, Scott said. This guy’s the best out there and the best of all time. As long as I don’t have the pain, then I don’t think there would be an issue.

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

Asked what he can do, Woods said, “I walk”. And OK, fine, we went out and played.

He added: “With all my heart, I do not want to stop playing golf”. I beat them all. “I can do it my way”.

Woods thought he was getting back to form after a tie for 10th at the Wyndham Championship in August, following a woeful year in which he missed three cuts in major championships.

The veteran golfer, who has been battling a back injury and has been out of action for over a year, believes that after the success of Jeev Milkha Singh and Arjun Atwal, Lahiri is the new flag bearer of Indian golf. He lost eight balls in nine holes and shot 54. I don’t know. It’s different from the other surgeries I’ve had in the past.

Woods said his daughter found him lying helpless on the ground and had to go fetch help for her father.

“So just kind of the way that he was able to kind of get into contention and be in contention and be at that highest kind of mental part of the game week in and week out and major in and major out”, said Spieth.