Tiger Woods: & # 039; I was exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally & # 039;

The former world number 1, who returned to action after a long period of career-threatening back injuries, made an impressive comeback with an emotional victory at the end of the season Tour Championship.

It was a position that many, even Woods himself, thought he would never be.

Woods has again made the hottest feature in golf his remarkable revival, but he admits he was not really prepared to play so late in the season and then take part in an eighth Ryder Cup.

"I was not physically prepared to play as much golf at the end of the race for years," Woods told the reporters for his Hero World Challenge tournament, which starts on the Bahamas Thursday.

"It has never been so hot at any tournament, it was just stifling It was hard for me to maintain my strength and my weight through all that.

" I was exhausted the time I arrived at the Ryder Cup. I was exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally. & # 39; & # 39;

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Woods, who had a merger operation in April 2017, started the year with promising fashion, finished second in the Valspar championship in March before briefly leading the Open in July and second in August to Brooks Koepka in the American PGA.

He qualified for the WGC Invitational and the FedEx Cup end of -season play-offs and played for seven of nine weeks from early August.

His crowning moment was a two-shot victory over September Tour Championship for his 80th PGA Tour victory and the first since 2013.

But he seemed to run empty while he went down a week later to four losses in the all-rounder Ryder Cup defeat of Team USA in France.

"I took an important break after the Ryder Cup, got away with it for a bit," said Woods. "My training sessions were good, I got a bit stronger

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