13 October,2016 08:20 AM IST | | PA Sport
Luke Donald believes mental anguish could be behind the decision of Tiger Woods to pull out of his planned comeback at this week's Safeway Open
Luke Donald and Tiger Woods
Luke Donald and Tiger Woods
Watford: Luke Donald believes "mental anguish" could be behind the decision of Tiger Woods to pull out of his planned comeback at this week's Safeway Open.
Woods has undergone three back operations in the space of 19 months and has not played competitively since August last year. The 40-year-old said on Monday he was not ready to compete. "My health is good, and I feel strong, but my game is vulnerable and not where it needs to be," Woods said on his website.
Donald can sympathise with Woods after being sidelined with a career-threatening wrist injury in 2008 and said: "Obviously it sounds like clinically he feels fine. He's just not quite ready to tee it up from a mental standpoint perhaps. That's certainly what I gathered from his comments."
