Woods makes his Tampa Bay debut at Valspar Championship
PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods has won five PGA Tour events that he played for the first time.
Two of them no longer exist (Disney and BellSouth Classic in Atlanta). One of them he stopped playing 12 years ago (Tournament of Champions). He has been ineligible for another (World Golf Championship now in Mexico) the last four years.
The other is Las Vegas .
The next opportunity, which is rare in his predictable schedule, starts Thursday at the Valspar Championship.
That's not to say Woods has never competed on the Copperhead course at Innisbrook. He played in 1996, but he had some help. It was the old JC Penney Mixed Team Classic.