Golfing legend Tiger Woods will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame, with 14-year-old daughter Sam to introduce him at the ceremony.
The occasion will be another special family event for Woods after playing with his 12-year-old son Charlie at the PNC Championship for the last two years.
The father and son Woods duo set a tournament record with 11 straight birdies to finish runner up at the event last December.
Sam was born one day after Woods’ runner-up finish in the 2007 US Open at Oakmont. Later that summer, Woods claimed his 13th Major at the PGA Championship at Southern Hills.
Tiger Woods was originally announced as one of the four inductees in the spring of 2020, with the ceremony expected to take place in 2021. However, the event was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and will finally be held this week at the PGA Tour’s Global Home headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, before the Players Championship begins.
Also being inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame will be retired PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem, three-time US Women’s Open champion Susie Maxwell Berning and US Women’s Amateur champion, Curtis Cup captain and the first woman to develop golf courses, Marion Hollins, who will be recognised posthumously.
Hall of Fame member Davis Love III will be introducing Tim Finchem, while another Hall of Fame member, Judy Rankin, will introduce Susie Maxwell Berning.
Following the event, the total number of World Golf Hall of Fame members will be 164.
In February 2021, Tiger Woods was hospitalised and seriously injured after he crashed his car in a high-speed, single vehicle accident and had to be cut from the wreck of his vehicle in California.
As a result of the accident, Woods suffered ‘comminuted open fractures’ to both the upper and lower portions of his tibia and fibula in his right leg, as well as damage to the ankle bones and trauma to the muscle and soft tissue of the leg.
Last month, Woods said he remained unable to commit to a return to professional golf, describing himself as a ‘weekend warrior’ because one of his legs continued to be ‘altered’ from the car crash.
“It’s altered. My right leg does not look like my left, put it that way,” Woods said.
“I can play weekend warrior golf, that’s easy. But to be able to be out here and play, call it six rounds of golf, a practice round, pro-am, four competitive days, it‘s the cumulative effect of all that. I’m not able to do that yet. I’m still working on getting to that point.”
Woods has won 15 Majors during his career and has 82 PGA Tour wins to his name.
