Tiger Woods’ birthday means huge update on PGA Tour Champions for senior players

Billy Heyen

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Tiger Woods is 50.

Tuesday marks the milestone birthday for one of the greatest golfers of all time.

With it comes this: Woods is now eligible to play on the PGA Tour Champions.

It's the circuit formerly known as the Senior Tour, for golfers 50 and up.

Tiger has been crushed by injuries and has been unable to play much in regular PGA events in recent years.

There's always been a fascination with the idea of him playing the senior events once he's eligible.

"Woods hasn't publicly said whether he intends to play on the former Senior PGA Tour, which allows golfers to use carts and has a 54-hole format at most tournaments outside of the 72-hole majors," ESPN's Mark Schlabach wrote on Tuesday.

Woods didn't compete in a single event on the PGA Tour in 2025. He tore his left Achilles in March while getting ready for the Masters. Woods also had a back surgery in October.

"During a news conference at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Dec. 2, Woods said he had only recently started putting and chipping and wasn't close to being able to take full swings," Schlabach writes.

Woods last played on the PGA Tour in July 2024, when he missed the cut at the Open Championship.

He has 82 career PGA Tour wins. His last major victory was the 2019 Masters.

"I'd like to come back to just playing golf again," Woods said in the Bahamas earlier this month. "I haven't played golf in a long time. It's been a tough year. I've had a lot of things happen on and off the golf course that's been tough. And so my passion [is] to just play, I haven't done that in a long time."

Now, Woods is 50, and the next stage of his golf life could begin, if he so chooses.

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