His body was broken. His game was broken. His spirit was broken. All of it public. None of it pretty. But on Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club nothing could stop Tiger Woods …
His body was broken. His game was broken. His spirit was broken. All of it public. None of it pretty. But on Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club nothing could stop Tiger Woods from winning the Masters. Not Father Time. Not Mother Nature. Not the best golfers in the world.
“Just unreal, to be honest with you,” Woods said at the opening of his winner’s press conference. “You know, just the whole tournament has meant so much to me over the years. Coming here in ’95 for the first time, and being able to play as an amateur; winning in ’97, and then come full circle, 22 years later, to be able to do it again, and just the way it all transpired today.”
Woods’ 13-under-par total and his Sunday triumph will become one of sport’s great ‘Where were you when’ moments, but this win is about more than just a single day. Tiger’s victory on Sunday is the fulfillment of the greatest comeback in sports history by the greatest golfer to ever play.The very nature of competition is not kind to desperate athletes shaking the canteen one last time to see if anything is left.
Then, this week, after missing numerous short putts in rounds one and two he figured it out and putted flawlessly over the weekend and won the green jacket. Despite the fused disc in his lower back, Woods’ swing somehow looks as good as ever. Sure, some of the power is gone but it has been replaced by a fluidity never seen before in his movement. Nobody in the field at the Masters looked as in control as Woods over the four days.
Woods fifth Masters victory came against the deepest field of any of his major wins. His otherworldly run of 14 major championships from 1997-2008 took golf to new heights, made the sport cool, and created a hyper-aggressive, brashly confident, powerful generation of golfers.
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