Highlights from Tiger Woods' news conference - ESPN

NASSAU, Bahamas — Tiger Woods is returning to competitive golf for the first time in nearly eight months when he tees it up at the Hero World Challenge on Thursday.

On Tuesday, the 15-time major champion met with reporters for the first time since his news conference at the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in April.

Much has happened on the PGA Tour since then, including its stunning framework agreement with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and the DP World Tour on June 6.

Woods tackled myriad topics during a news conference in the Bahamas on Tuesday, including his confidence in PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, the future ecosystem in the game and his decision to join the PGA Tour's policy board.

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Q: Tiger, when did you decide that you were going to be able to play? What's the buildup been like?

Woods: As far as the commitment to playing, probably after I caddied with [my son] Charlie and was able to recover each and every day like that. I was still lifting and still doing a bunch of other things too alongside of that, so in conjunction with that and during part of it, all my beach walks at home, just the accumulation, how could I recover, could I keep progressing at the same time, right? I was hitting golf balls a lot, trying to get Charlie ready for the event. And then post-event I started feeling, you know what, I can probably do, so why not? Talked to the committee, and a committee of one was able to give me a spot.

Q: How concerned are you about walking 90 holes?

Woods: I'm not concerned at all about walking it. It's more, as I said, I don't have any of the ankle pain that I had with the hardware that's been placed in my foot, that's all gone. The other parts of my