PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Tiger Woods suddenly withdrew from the Genesis Invitational on Friday at Riviera Country Club in the middle of his second round with what he described to a tournament official as “an illness.’’
Woods, whose foundation hosts the tournament, was driven off the course on a golf cart by a rules official after hitting his tee shot into the middle of the fairway on the seventh hole.
He was 2-over par and on the outside of the cut line at the time.
The 48-year-old Woods, who appeared to wince after he hit the tee shot on the seventh hole, was playing in an official full-field PGA Tour event for the first time since the 2023 Masters, after which he underwent surgery to fuse bones in his right foot that was injured his 2021 car crash.
Woods shot a 1-over-par 72 in Thursday’s first round, a round that was low-lighted by his uncharacteristic shanked 8-iron approach shot on the 18th hole, which led to a closing bogey.