Tiger Woods Returning To Firestone With His Trusted Travel Agent In Tow

You gotta hand it to the newsroom at TigerWoods.com, another exclusive confirmed by Tiger his ownself on Twitter.

"I'm excited to get back out there," said Woods, who has been idle since withdrawing from The PLAYERS Championship after nine holes on May 12 after sustaining a mild medial collateral ligament strain to his left knee and aggravating a strained left Achilles tendon.

Both injuries were originally occurred during the third round of the Masters, when Woods hit a recovery shot out of pine straw on the 17th hole. He went on to shoot 74, but followed with a 67 on Sunday and tied for fourth.

Following the advice of his doctors, Woods has rested and rehabbed his left leg, and just recently began hitting practice balls.

Doug Ferguson notes in his story the timing of the decision:

Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent at Excel Sports Management, declined to confirm Bell would be on the bag, saying in a text message that "no long term been discussed yet as he just decided tonight he was fit and ready to go next week."

Sam Weinman reports that it was another part of the Woods team, Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman, who reported that Bryon Bell has landed the job as Tiger's bagman next week.

Bell runs Woods' fledgling design business and also handles select travel arrangements.