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Woods’ Career at 50: New Chapter with Challenges for the Tiger and Tours

Where is the GOAT headed next? PGA Tour? PGA Tour Champions? Majors and senior majors? Questions abound, and it’s complicated.

Quo vadis, Tiger? This question can actually be asked every year. Since 2009, when extramarital issues came to light. Since 2014, after he had a comeback the year before but was then sidelined by a chronic back injury. Since 2019, when his triumphant fifth Masters and 15th major silenced critics who believed \”They Never Come Back,\” rewarding those who mantrically insisted the GOAT should never be written off.

Most certainly since that fateful February 23, 2021. Since the severe car accident in California, which the superstar miraculously survived. It nearly cost him his shattered right lower leg and foot and disrupted Woods’ sporting career as much as the SUV he was driving, in which he likely nodded off briefly—microsleep.

Quo Vadis, Tiger: Eligibility for PGA Tour Champions and Smooth Sailing?

Now Eldrick Tont Woods is 50 years old, born December 30, 1975, at 10:30 PM in Long Beach, California. The question remains looming as ever: Quo vadis, Tiger? More aspects come into play, still focused on Woods’ physical condition but also complicated by the milestone birthday. The 82-time tour winner is now eligible to play on the PGA Tour Champions, where he is allowed to cruise over fairways in a cart without any special exemption. So, smooth sailing?