Can Tiger Woods battle for sixteenth significant triumph at Southern Hills this week?

Tiger Woods gets back to activity this week at the PGA Championship, yet what could we at any point anticipate from the 15-time significant boss at Southern Hills?

Woods completed 47th at The Masters last month, his most memorable high level appearance in almost 17 months after a vocation compromising auto accident, with the previous world No 1 comparing his re-visitation of “climbing Everest”.

The 46-year-old conceded the fallout of his endeavors at the initial men’s major of the year “was terrible”, yet accepts he will find it simpler to play courses which are not as undulating as Augusta National.

Woods has been matched with Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth for the initial two rounds at Southern Hills, the setting where he won the latest of his four PGA Championship titles in 2007, with Brandel Chamblee trusting it’s as yet workable for Woods to add to his significant count.

“I couldn’t say whether his body is truly going to allow him completely to do what his brain is able to do, however under the right conditions it’s to be expected for these extraordinary players to have their renaissance minutes,” Chamblee told Golf Channel.

“You could say Tiger has currently his renaissance second at the 2019 Masters yet here is back, he seems as though he’s moving around fine, the swing looks perfect and the ball speed his up to 175mph.

“Triumph is currently an opportunities for Tiger once more. One, yet all the same a few. You could see that incident and you could see him doing it under the right conditions at a significant title.

“I don’t think Tiger will have the advantage of what he had in 2007, he must hit that driver more, however I really do feel that the driver swing he has right currently is a preferred swing over the one he had in 2007.”

Woods made a great beginning at The Masters with a one-under 71, placing him in contact with the early lead, prior to blurring with a second-cycle 74 and consecutive 78s throughout the end of the week, yet previous PGA Tour player Brad Faxon is moving him for one more solid first day of the season in Tulsa.

“He’s hitting it far, his swing is more appealing and we saw at The Masters how well he drove it, even at the primary tee which is normally an intense tee gone for him,” Faxon told Golf Channel.

“I anticipate that Tiger should get off to a quick beginning – perhaps might we at any point see something as we did at Pebble Beach in 2000, where he shot 65 and it prodded him on to a memorable week.

“I see an adult Tiger Woods at this moment. Whenever I stood by listening to him talk you hear somebody paying attention to his body.

Tiger’s significantly more agreeable now from fans and different players, and I believe he’s an individual with want that can be a major figure his significant title.

“I think he has consistently had the inspiration to beat Jack Nicklaus’ records and to come out on top for another significant title. Could 18 be potentially to him? I think this week will be a major test for him.

I don’t think we’ll at any point see the Tiger Woods of old, however the new Tiger Woods is still darn great!”

Woods told columnists in his pre-competition public interview that he “most certainly” feels like he could lift the Wanamaker Trophy, a view reverberated by Sky Sports’ Robert Lee.

“I’m telling you, Tiger can make it happen,” Lee told the Sky Sports Golf digital recording. “Tiger can totally play very little and turn up and contend, on the grounds that his slow time of year isn’t as else anyone’s.

He is totally exceptional and he has displayed on many events that he can be off for quite a long time and turn up and play well straight away.

“Remember about Ben Hogan, who Woods is imitating partially, with the incredible rebound from almost kicking the bucket in an auto accident – there are likenesses among them.

“Ben Hogan’s halcyon season was 1953, where he played multiple times and won five of them, including three majors.

That format is there for Tiger, and it’s not lost on him what Hogan did after a close deadly fender bender. I’m telling you, he can turn up and contend.”

The world No 818 has just made 11 authority begins since guaranteeing his noteworthy 82nd PGA Tour at the Zozo Championship in October 2019, with Sky Sports’ Jamie Spence feeling that his absence of competition practice keeps him from being a not kidding competitor.

“He’s simply not prepared, is he?” Spence told the Sky Sports Golf web recording.

“He did okay at The Masters, however he’s 70/1 with the bookmakers, instead of 13/8 to when he won in 2007, so that recounts to you a story.

“It [contending] is profoundly far-fetched. Hopefully he can contend and get up the list of competitors and you can’t preclude him, however you’re going out on a limb when you take a gander at every one of the players that are playing great.

“McIlroy is 16/1, Jon Rahm’s won as of late, Collin Morikawa is moving, Scottie Scheffler has won multiple times this year as of now, Viktor Hovland is drifting, so it truly is somewhere down regarding ability.”