Tiger Woods is back.

Again.

The 47-year-old Woods is making a comeback to competitive golf for the third time at his own Hero World Championship this week.

The tournament, which features a 20-player field, begins Thursday and runs through Sunday at the Albany Club in the Bahamas.

It’ll be the first time Woods will play competitively since April 8, when he withdrew after the second round of the Masters with discomfort in his right foot and ankle.

Two weeks later, Woods revealed he had surgery to address “post-traumatic arthritis” in his right ankle — one of the by-products of his February 2021 car crash in Los Angeles.

A subtalar fusion was performed on the ankle, which Woods on Tuesday called “a success’’ that has left him pain free.

Woods has made only five tournament starts since his 2021 car crash after the Genesis Invitational.

He finished 47th at the 2022 Masters, withdrew from the 2022 PGA Championship, missed the cut at the 2022 British Open, tied for 45th at last year’s Genesis and withdrew from last year’s Masters.

“My game feels rusty; I haven’t played in a while, so … I’m excited to compete and play and I’m just as curious as all of you are to see what happens,” Woods said. “I can tell you that I don’t have any of the pain that I had at Augusta or pre [Augusta] in my ankle. I’m a little more sore in other areas, but the ankle is good. So, that surgery was a success.”

Woods sounded more optimistic about his potential playing schedule moving forward, which is a departure from what we’ve heard from him in recent years.

“Best scenario would be maybe a tournament a month,” Woods said. “I think that’s realistic. You would have to start with maybe at the Genesis Invitational and something in March, maybe the Players. We have a setup right now, the biggest events are one per month. It sets itself up for that. I need to get myself ready for all that. I think this week is a big step in that direction.”

Woods is next scheduled to play with his son Charlie, at the PNC Championship at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 16-17, marking two tournaments in three weekends for him.

His caddie since 2014, Joe LaCava, has been working for Patrick Cantlay since Woods underwent surgery and didn’t have a timeline for his return. /image

Woods is having Rob McNamara, his longtime friend and business associate, caddie for him this week and said he doesn’t know who’ll work for him after that.

Woods is ranked 1,328th in the Official World Golf Ranking.

Off the golf course, Woods in August joined the PGA Tour’s policy board as a player director, alongside Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Charley Hoffman, Peter Malnati and Webb Simpson.

He said he still has faith in PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, but was critical that players were kept in the dark before the tour reached a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the DP World Tour in June.

“I’m sure a lot of the players were taken aback by it, by what happened,” Woods said. “So quickly without any input or any information about it, it was just thrown out there. I was very surprised that the process was what it was. We were very frustrated with what happened and we took steps going forward to ensure that we were not going to be left out of the process like we were. So, part of that process was putting me on the board and accepting that position.”