{"id":149867,"date":"2025-02-11T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tiger-woods-pulls-out-of-genesis-after-mothers-death"},"modified":"2025-02-15T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:27:34","slug":"tiger-woods-pulls-out-of-genesis-after-mothers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/tiger-woods-pulls-out-of-genesis-after-mothers-death","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods pulls out of Genesis after mother\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Tiger Woods has pulled out this week\u2019s Genesis Invitational, as he is \u201cstill processing\u201d his mother\u2019s death, Kultida.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-time major champion has admitted he is \u201cnot ready\u201d to return to golf.<\/p>\n<p>Kultida\u2019s death was confirmed on February 4.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, the organisers of the Genesis Invitational announced Woods\u2019 participation in the event at Torrey Pines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI planned to tee it up this week, but I\u2019m just not ready,\u201d Woods wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did my best to prepare, knowing it\u2019s what my mom would have wanted, but I\u2019m still processing her loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to everyone who has reached out. I hope to be at Torrey later in the week and appreciate the continued kindness since my mom\u2019s passing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woods has not featured a PGA Tour event since last year\u2019s Open at Royal Troon in July.<\/p>\n<p>The American has not played regularly since being involved in a car accident in February 2021 and underwent more surgery on his lower back in September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Tiger Woods has pulled out this week\u2019s Genesis Invitational, as he is \u201cstill processing\u201d his mother\u2019s death, Kultida. The 15-time major champion has admitted he is \u201cnot ready\u201d to return to golf. Kultida\u2019s death was confirmed on February 4. Three days later, the organisers of the Genesis Invitational announced Woods\u2019 participation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":149866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254,3138],"class_list":["post-149867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria","tag-tiger-woods"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tiger Woods pulls out of Genesis after mother\u2019s death - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tiger Woods has pulled out this week\u2019s Genesis Invitational, as he is \u201cstill processing\u201d his mother\u2019s death, Kultida. 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