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The news comes one month before the first major championship
of 2017, the Masters at Augusta National.
"Unfortunately, due to ongoing rest and rehabilitation on my
back, I won't be able to play in this year's Arnold Palmer
Invitational," Woods, 41, said on his website (tigerwoods.com).
"I'm especially disappointed because I wanted to be at Bay Hill
to help honor Arnold."
This will be the first staging of the PGA Tour event at Bay Hill
in Orlando since Palmer died last September.
The 14-times major champion Woods, who has hardly played since
major back surgery in 2015, gave no indication on when he might
return to competition.
"Presently, I have no timetable for my return to golf, but my
treatments are continuing and going well," he said.
(Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by
Ken Ferris)
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