Tiger Woods will soon be back in action.
On Wednesday, the 45-year-old golfer revealed that he will participate in next weekend’s PNC Championship with his 12-year-old son, Charlie, his first golf tournament since nearly losing his leg in a car crash on Feb. 23 in California.
“Although it’s been a long and challenging year, I am very excited to close it out by competing in the @PNCchampionship with my son Charlie,” Woods tweeted.
“I’m playing as a Dad and couldn’t be more excited and proud.”
Woods shares Charlie and daughter Sam, 14, with his ex-wife, Elin Nordegren. The pair divorced in 2010.
The PNC Championship features golf champions teaming up with family members. It is a two-round event starting on Saturday, Dec. 18. It is preceded by two pro-am rounds on Thursday and Friday, although it is unclear if Woods will participate in those.
Woods and Charlie, who has turned heads in previous junior tournaments, participated in last year’s PNC Championship.
Last month, Woods posted an Instagram video of himself hitting balls on the course in the first clue that a return was near.
It’s been speculated that the PNC Championship would mark Woods’ return to the sport. Golf Channel analyst Notah Begay III — who is close friends with the 15-time major winner — said the upcoming tournament would be perfect for Woods as the golfer wouldn’t have to walk the course like a PGA Tour event.
“Tiger can ride a cart, he can drive up basically to the golf ball and almost onto the green, so the walking might not be as much of a stress on the leg,” Begay recently said. “But also, he can play Charlie’s drives. I covered them for the majority of that event last year, and Charlie was hitting most of the drives because of where his tees are at, and he’s such a good ball-striker that they were taking advantage of his drives because they were much farther than where Tiger’s balls were off the tee.
“Those are two critical things that I think might factor into him possibly showing up in a couple weeks with Charlie. I know the world would love to see it.”
Prior to Wednesday’s announcement, Woods had opened up about what the future could possibly hold for him.
“As far as playing at the Tour level, I don’t know when that’s going to happen,” Woods said last week in his first public appearance since the crash. “Now, I’ll play a round here or there, a little hit-and-giggle. That’s something that for a while there it didn’t look like I was going to. Now I’m able to participate in the sport of golf. Now, to what level, I do not know that.”
