Wedding, practice will be Woods' pre-Masters routine
Tiger Woods will take a two-week break before next month's Masters to attend a friend's wedding and prepare for the season's first major.
Woods, trying to become the first player to successfully defend his title at The Players Championship this week, said he would normally only take a one-week break.
"I don't want to take two weeks off, but I'm going to," said Woods, who secured his first title of the season last weekend when he won the Bay Hill Invitational for the third successive year.
"I don't have to play the week before The Masters, and I can't play Houston next week because my best friend I've know since I was in first grade ... he's getting married on Saturday, so I've got to go to that.
"That's very important to me and very important to him."
Woods will miss the Houston Open for his friend's wedding and the BellSouth Classic preparing for The Masters.
Woods added that normally he would only rest the week before a major, unlike Jack Nicklaus who holds the record for major victories with 18.
"From what I've been told ... being able to talk to Jack about the way he did it, he would go to the major championships and decide to play 36 holes or even 72 prior to the week of the tournament -- I would never do that," said Woods, who will defend his Masters title at Augusta National from April 10-14.
"That's just too much for me. For him, that's what he needed to feel comfortable on the golf course, so when he got there he would not have to do much. I just want to get a look at and get a feel for how it's playing. That week of the tournament that's when you dial in and get your feel for how the course is playing this week."
Woods has won six majors and completed a unique Grand Slam last year when he won The Masters by two shots over David Duval.
His victory at the Bay Hill Invitational saw him become the first player to win the tournament three years in succession and the first to win three different events three years running.
He has also won the Memorial Tournament and the WGC-NEC Invitational three years in a row.
