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The 15-time major champion withdrew ahead of last weekend's Hero
World Challenge after developing plantar fasciitis, tissue
inflation that causes pain in the heel.
"I can hit golf balls, it's just hard to get from point A to
point B, so [the cart] will certainly help a lot," Woods told
reporters on a call promoting the event on Wednesday.
"I've got to get this plantar to heal and that just takes time.
It's not something that happens overnight. It's going to take a
lot of rest and healing and unfortunately, treatment.
"It's a tough road."
Woods suffered significant injuries to his right leg and foot
during a February 2021 car crash near Los Angeles but returned
to tee it up at this year's Masters, PGA Championship and the
British Open.
While it remains to be seen how much PGA Tour golf Woods will
play next year, he noted during the call that golf lends itself
to long careers.
"Arnold Palmer played in 50 straight Masters. You can't do that
in any other sport," said Woods, who turns 47 later this month.
"Our sport is measured in decades, not just years, decades."
Woods and world number one Rory McIlroy will battle major
champions Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas in the seventh
iteration of The Match, a made-for-TV 12-hole exhibition event
that will be played under the lights and air in the primetime
slot in Florida on Saturday.
Spieth marvelled at the opportunity to take on two icons of the
sport.
"If you told myself and JT in 2012 in college that we would be
playing against these two in a match, that would be a really,
really cool thing," he said.
"We want to win it because of how much these two inspired us.
It's a unique and really cool opportunity for us to try to take
down a couple of the greats, a couple of the greatest that ever
played."
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Christian
Radnedge)
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