Tiger Woods’ airplane left Florida ahead of the state being hit at the peak of Hurricane Milton, with the golf legend heading to Jackson, Mississippi.

Woods‘ private plane was tracked leaving Florida on Wednesday morning by radaratlas2 on X and heading to Jackson, which was the location of last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship won by Kevin Yu.

Woods did not compete in the tournament won as he had already stated he does not expect to tee off in competition until Nov. Following a tough 2024, as he continues his comeback from a 2021 car crash that left him needing major surgery, Woods will not compete until his Hero World Challenge event in the Bahamas at the end of Nov.

In 2024, Woods missed the cuts at the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open, before The Open, where he failed to make the weekend. He will also compete alongside his 15-year-old son, Charlie in Dec. at the PNC Challenge in Florida.

“I’m going to just keep getting physically better and keep working on it,” he said,” Woods said recently. The 15-time major winner jetted out of Florida before the state faced the peak of Hurricane Milton, which was being dubbed the “storm of the century” by officials, with sustained winds tipped to register close to 241km/h.

Milton was a Category 5 hurricane as of Tuesday afternoon but it was downgraded to a Category 3 hurricane. Officials still warned that the hurricane still posed a significant threat to life despite the downgrade.

“Milton is a Category 3 with wind speeds up to 120 miles per hour,” President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. “But no one should be confused. It’s still expected to be one of the most and worst destructive hurricanes to hit Florida in over a century.”

Hurricane Milton is now a Category 1 hurricane on Thursday morning

Hurricane Milton is now a Category 1 hurricane on Thursday morning ( 

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Overnight, Milton shifted from a Category 5 to a Category 1 as Florida braved sustained winds of 193km/h while leaving more than 1.5 million homes and businesses without power, according to The US National Hurricane Center.

“There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge along the coast from east-central Florida northward to southern Georgia, where a Storm Surge Warning remains in effect,” the NHC said at 5 am EDT. “Damaging hurricane-force winds, especially in gusts, will continue for a few more hours in east-central and northeastern Florida.

“Residents are urged to remain in an interior room and away from windows. Heavy rainfall across the central to northern Florida Peninsula through this morning continues to bring the risk of considerable flash and urban flooding.”