Tiger Woods officially adds Farmers Insurance Open, Riviera to his PGA Tour schedule

Tiger Woods will continue his latest comeback with starts at the Farmers Insurance Open and Genesis Open, according to the golfer himself.

Woods, who finished T9 last month at the Hero World Challenge (his first tournament since February), announced on Twitter on Thursday that he will kick off his 2018 season at Torrey Pines on Jan. 25 and follow that up with a stint at Riviera.

It’s hardly a surprise that Tiger would make Torrey, where he has earned eight of his 79 PGA Tour wins (including the 2008 U.S. Open), the first stop of his warmup for the Masters in April. Of course, though the 42-year-old Woods has had tremendous success at the San Diego course, he got his butt kicked there (76-72, missed cut) in last year’s aborted attempt to return from back surgery. He also withdrew from the event in 2015 and finished T80 in 2014.

But it’s a new year and presumably a new Tiger, who looked pretty good and, more important, had no pain, during his Hero gig. Assuming this season gets off to a better start than the last, Woods will next take his skills to the Genesis Open and Riviera (Feb. 15-18), where he made his tour debut as a 16-year-old in 1992.

“I’m very excited to be back at Riviera,” Woods said in a statement. “I haven’t played at Riviera in a tournament in a very long time. To be able to play in an event that I used to come to as an amateur, as a junior and now as the tournament host, that is on one of the most historic sites in all of golf, it’s a dream come true.”

Woods owns four top-7 finishes, including two runner-up outcomes, at Riviera.

The 14-time major champion has yet to fill out his calendar beyond Los Angeles, but we would expect him to continue getting pre-Augusta reps at the Honda Classic (Feb. 22-25) and the Arnold Palmer Invitational (March 15-18). Woods made his announcement on the same day that the tour begins the year in Hawaii at the Tournament of Champions.