Woods set to take another break

Golf: Golf fans will have another wait on their hands before discovering where and when Tiger Woods plays next

Golf:Golf fans will have another wait on their hands before discovering where and when Tiger Woods plays next. The world number one finished joint fourth at the Masters on his return from a traumatic lay-off of nearly five months following a sex scandal.

And after Phil Mickelson's success, Woods said: "I'm going to take a little time off and kind of re-evaluate things."

The 34-year-old's first appearance post-Augusta last year was the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the same event is on April 29-May 2.

It is expected he will play either there or at the following week's Players Championship at the US Tour's Sawgrass headquarters in Florida.

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With total uncertainty about how he would fare and how he would be received after his self-imposed break - especially given the circumstances - onlookers will consider fourth at Augusta a superb achievement.

But Woods saw things differently. He said: "I finished fourth. Not what I wanted. I came here to win this tournament, but as the week went on I kept hitting the ball worse.

"I only enter events to win and I didn't get it done. I didn't hit the ball good enough and I made too many mistakes around the greens."

Yet Woods still equalled a Masters record. Only two other players in the tournament's history have also had four eagles in one week.

Two of his came on Sunday when he holed his approach to the seventh and then made a 15-footer on the 15th, but three bogeys in the first five bogeys left him too much ground to make up.