Tiger Woods May Not Play Golf Next Year

Tiger Woods has yet to swing a golf club since twice undergoing procedures on his troublesome back this fall, and at this point he is unable to commit to playing golf next year.

At a news conference Tuesday in advance of the Hero World Challenge, Woods spoke pessimistically about his immediate future in the game, saying he has yet to begin rehabilitation and doesn't know when he will resume golf activities.

"I have no answer for that, and neither does my surgeon," Woods said at Albany Golf Club, where he will be a spectator for the annual tournament that benefits his foundation. "There is no timetable, so that's the hardest part for me. There's really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build towards.

"Where is the light at the end of the tunnel?"

Asked what he can do, Woods said, "I walk. And I walk and I walk some more.

"It's just taking it literally day by day and week by week and time by time. It's different from any of the other surgeries and procedures that I've had in the past, where, OK, you blow out your ACL, which I did, and I had ACL reconstruction, and OK, you're back in nine months. That's the timetable.

"For nerves, there are really no timetables, and therein lies the tricky part because you can come back earlier or you can come back later, it just depends on how the nerve heals and how it settles."