Tiger Woods to skip the PGA Championship

Published 2:00 pm Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Tiger Woods will go all of 2016 without competing in a major golf championship after Tuesday’s announcement that he’s skipping next week’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol in New Jersey.

Woods has spent all of this year recovering from multiple back surgeries in September. He hasn’t played in any tournament since the Wyndham Championship last August.

Woods, a 14-time major winner and four-time PGA champion, has never gone an entire calendar year without competing in a major, missing two of them three times previously (2008, 2011, 2014).

It remains unclear whether Woods will play competitively at all in 2016.

“Continuing to make progress, but simply not ready for PGA. Will not play in the ‘15/’16 season and will continue to rehab and work hard to then assess when he starts play for the ‘16/’17 season,” his agent, Mark Steinberg, said in an e-mail to the Golf Channel.

Prior to his Quicken Loans National tournament in June Woods said he was “working hard on getting healthy” and “making progress” toward a return.