Tiger Woods says that his 'heart really is not to practice', since he throws doubts about the prospects of a return in the players championship next week

Tiger Woods has questioned the perspectives of a return in the players championship next week after admitting that his “heart is not really practicing.”

The 15 -time older champion has not played at the level of the tour since the open last summer, with a rear surgery that represents much of his dismissal before retiring from invitational genesis earlier this month after his mother's death.

There have been whispers that I could return in the flagship event of the PGA Tour in Sawgrass, Florida, which would serve as a sharpener before the masters in April, but its last update makes it look unlikely.

Speaking after his Jupiter Links GC team was eliminated from the Tgle Indoor competition this week, the 49 -year -old said: 'This is the third time he touches a club since my mother died, so I really haven't gotten into him.

'My heart really is not to practice at this time. I have had many other things to do with the tour and trying to do other things.

“Once I start feeling a little better and start entering it, I will start looking at the schedule.”

Tiger Woods played at an TGL event on Tuesday, but the players championship is likely to be lost

Woods's Jupiter Links GC team was eliminated from TGL Indoor competition this week

Fifteen times Major Woods has not played at a PGA Tour event since July of last year

The limit to enter the players championship is Friday and is the latest edition covered by Wood's exemption to win the Masters in 2019.

The tournament itself will begin on March 13 and will end on March 16.

Woods has not played at a PGA Tour event since July last year when he failed to cut in the championship open in Royal Troon.

Then he underwent his sixth procedure in 10 years in September.