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Tiger out of Arnie's Bay Hill tourney

 
Tiger Woods has eight wins at Bay Hill. He says he hopes to be ready for the Masters next month.
Tiger Woods has eight wins at Bay Hill. He says he hopes to be ready for the Masters next month.
Published March 14, 2015

Tiger Woods will not be at Bay Hill next week for the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the second tournament he has missed since stating a month ago that he would not return to competitive golf until his game was ready.

Woods still wasn't ruling out the Masters in a brief statement Friday on his website.

"I've put in a lot of time and work on my game, and I'm making strides," Woods said. "But like I've said, I won't return to the PGA Tour until my game is tournament ready and I can compete at the highest level."

He said he spoke to Palmer on Friday to tell him he would not be at his tournament.

Woods is an eight-time winner at Bay Hill. This will be the second straight time he has missed the Arnold Palmer Invitational. A year ago, he had a back injury that led to surgery a week after the tournament, causing him to miss the Masters for the first time.

"I hope to be ready for the Masters, and I will continue to work hard preparing for Augusta," Woods said in his statement.

Woods has fallen to No. 79 in the world, his worst ranking since the week before he won his first PGA Tour event as a 20-year-old in 1996.