(Reuters) -Tiger Woods will make a “game-time resolution” on competing at subsequent week’s Masters, the five-times champion stated on Sunday as he continues his restoration from the intense leg accidents he suffered in a automotive crash in February 2021.

Woods stated six weeks in the past that he had a “lengthy solution to go” in his restoration however hypothesis mounted with every passing day that his return might come on the April 7-10 Masters as he avoided eradicating his identify from the sector of opponents.

“I shall be heading as much as Augusta as we speak to proceed my preparation and follow. It is going to be a game-time resolution on whether or not I compete,” Woods stated on Twitter (NYSE:) https://twitter.com/TigerWoods/standing/1510613298022129668.

Woods’ single-car crash resulted in a three-week hospital keep in Los Angeles the place he confronted the opportunity of having his proper leg amputated. He was then confined to a hospital-type mattress for 3 months at his dwelling in South Florida.

The 46-year-old Woods has not performed on the PGA Tour for the reason that November 2020 Masters. His solely occasion for the reason that accident got here final December when he completed runner-up alongside his son in a 36-hole exhibition performed on a flat course with no tough.

Taking part in at Augusta Nationwide, nonetheless, represents one of many extra taxing walks on the PGA Tour given its undulating terrain that each one however assures golfers will hit from any variety of uneven lies in the course of the week.

However Woods is not any stranger to taking part in by way of ache, one thing he famously proved on the 2008 U.S. Open the place he prevailed in an exhilarating playoff at Torrey Pines whereas competing on what was primarily a damaged leg.

Woods capped one of the outstanding comebacks in skilled sport when, on the age of 43, he received the Masters in 2019 after enduring years of surgical procedure and private issues that satisfied many the most effective golfer of his era was executed.

Former world primary Rory McIlroy had stated it will be “phenomenal” for the game to have Woods return to competitors at Augusta.