Woods still looming as major threat

The show that Tiger Woods put on last week in his latest comeback from injury was enough to convince a pair of major winners that he might still be able to triumph in golf's marquee events.

Woods swung freely and with no sign of back pain at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, finishing tied for ninth in the 18-man exhibition that featured eight of the world's top 10 golfers.

Mark Calcavecchia saw enough to know it would be foolish to write off the former world No 1.