The 44-year-old 15-time major winner said Tuesday he had contemplated returning to the tour earlier but had wanted to see how the first few events of the post-coronavirus shutdown fared before coming back.
“I just felt it was better to stay at home and be safe,” Woods said Tuesday.
“I’m used to playing with lots of people around me or having lots of people have a direct line to me, and that puts not only myself in danger but my friends and family, and just been at home practising and social distancing and being away from a lot of people.
“Coming back and playing the tour, in my case over the 20-some-odd years I’ve been out here, that’s really hard to say, that I’m used to having so many people around me or even touch me, going from green to tee.
“That’s something that I looked at and said, well, I’m really not quite comfortable with that, that whole idea.”
Memorial organisers had initially planned to allow fans on the course at this week’s tournament, but abandoned that idea as COVID-19 cases across the United States began to skyrocket.
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