Woods back on the PGA Tour but only as a tournament host

LOS ANGELES (AP) — From a balcony on the clubhouse, Tiger Woods could see Riviera in all its glory Wednesday under a blue sky, a sliver of the Pacific Ocean visible over the tops of trees and below him a course reputed to be as good as any on the PGA Tour.

He’s expecting the course to be firm and fast, with the plan for the greens to get increasingly difficult. And then he interrupted himself with …