While he’s away, Couples says he doesn’t necessarily miss the game. “Do I want to play? Of course I want to play, but I refuse to play mediocre, and if my body doesn't let me do stuff, it's going to be mediocre," said Couples, who scrapped it around plenty good enough to win 13 times on the senior circuit after claiming 15 PGA Tour titles including the 1992 Masters during his PGA Tour career. "And how long do I want to do that? We’re going to find out pretty fast because the more I practice, I just get really, really stiff.”