ATLANTA, Ga. Hes baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. Here are some things I think I think after watching Tiger Woods end a five-year winless drought and capture his 80th career PGA Tour victory Sunday at the Tour Championship. Theres only one place to start. That walk down 18. Tiger Woods leading throngs of maniacs (and me) into an arena only he can create, only he can star in, only he can thrive in. That was a security nightmare, and Im sure whatever entities hold the insurance policies on Tiger and Rory were pulling their corporate hair out, but that was a scene you cant really stage. A scene you cant recreate. Not like that. Not with that level of exaltation. Every single person who has followed Tiger Woods career every single person who loves the game of golf felt like they were following Tiger in that crowd up 18. Regardless of whether you root for him or against him, you know no one else in the game can create a spectacle like that. After the surgeries, and the scandals, and the personal demons, Tiger Woods teared up, tapped in, put his arms in the air, and soaked in a kind of redemption none of us will ever fully understand. He admitted he almost cried twice on the way in. He almost cried in the crowd en route to the front bunker, and he almost cried after Rory McIlroy ceded the stage on the 72nd green. For years, he was invulnerable. Impenetrable. That was his aura. That aura was later shattered at too many different points along the way. There was a popular thought that Tiger Woods couldnt be Tiger Woods without that same air of invincibility that edge. But on Sunday, the golf world and Tiger himself saw that he could be vulnerable and a champion. Notah Begay perhaps put it best when he suggested on Golf Central that Tiger could, moving forward, strike a balance between playing with an edge and playing with a sense of gratitude.
That gratitude seems genuine, too. He thought he was done. More than that, at his lowest point, he didnt know what was going to be left of his life.Am I going to be able to sit, stand, walk, lay down without feeling the pain that I was in? I just didn't want to live that way, he said in the interview room. This is how the rest of my life is going to be? It's going to be a tough rest of my life. And so I was beyond playing. I couldn't sit. I couldn't walk. I couldn't lay down without feeling the pain in my back and my leg.Now the roars, the support, the embrace, the victory it all means a little more. Tiger Woods seems like a guy who took everything he had for granted, faced down the possibility of losing it all, and came out on the other end.
Final FedExCup standingsFull-field scores from the Tour ChampionshipTour Championship: Articles, photos and videos As for what exactly he really went through, maybe well never know. Maybe well never know how deep and dark that hole went. But clearly theres an inner circle that knows. And that includes some of Tigers colleagues on Tour.You know, the people who are close to me saw the struggles and what I was going through, and some of the players that I'm pretty close to, they've really helped throughout this process and the last few years, he said. Their support and some of those things that they said coming off that last green meant a lot to me. Tiger has been the face of golf for the last two decades. And thats why its so weird to think that anyone can conceive of him as anything other than the most dominant player in the history of the game. But his kids are young enough that they really dont know. Hearing him discuss his family Sunday night was both heartbreaking and heartwarming.I think they understand a little bit of what Dad does now. I hadn't won any tournaments in which they can remember, so I think this will be a little bit different for them. A lot of times they equated golf to pain because every time I did it, I would hurt, and it would cause me more pain. And so now they're seeing a little bit of joy and seeing how much fun it is for me to be able to do this again. So where do we go from here? To Paris, where Tiger through a wry smile suggested that everyone is going to sleep well on the U.S. plane tonight. Uh huh. But whats next in that big-picture sense? Does he pass Sam? Does he catch Jack? Hell, I dont know. I never thought wed get to this point again. And neither did he. Maybe itll never get any better than this. But you know, it just might.
DUBLIN, Ohio - Back at a place where he has won five times before, Tiger Woods started the Memorial Tournament with a 2-under 70 that could have been better. It also could have been a whole lot worse. Some thoughts from strolling the Muirfield Village fairways alongside Woods in the opening round: • Let's start with the basics.
TT Postscript: Could have been better, could have been worse
• After a slow start that included a bogey at the early hole, Tiger birdied the seventh, 11th and 13th holes to move to within five shots of the lead. "At 14 I had a look to go to 5 [under] and make birdie at 15, go to 6 [under] and all of a sudden I'm three back, and now here I am seven back," he said.
Tiger Woods shot a second-round 68 Friday at the Masters and is one shot off the 36-hole lead held by five different players. TT Postscript: Woods (68) overcomes short misses, near injury
TT Postscript: Could have been better, could have been worse
Finally settled in for the night and read this. Damn it, TT, I thought I was done tearing up. I've been screaming for Tiger since '96, through the brilliance and the downfall. You summed it up perfectly. Here's to many more victories. Thanks, brother.
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TT Postscript: Tiger Woods captures PGA Tour win No. 80
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TT Postscript: Woods (68) overcomes short misses, near injury
DUBLIN, Ohio - Back at a place where he has won five times before, Tiger Woods started the Memorial Tournament with a 2-under 70 that could have been better. It also could have been a whole lot
TT Postscript: Could have been better, could have been worse
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TT Postscript: Could have been better, could have been worse, was a 70 May 30, 2019 Tiger Tracker Uncategorized DUBLIN, Ohio - Back at a place where he has won five times before, Tiger Woods started the Memorial Tournament with a 2-under 70 that could have been better.
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TT Postscript: Four three-putts hold Tiger back in opening round Source: The Golf Channel LOS ANGELES - We will make this quick since our man had a quick turnaround following his first round at the Genesis Open: Tiger finally got his week started following Thursday's seven-hour weather delay but his putter was as cold as the weather.
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DUBLIN, Ohio - Back at a place where he has won five times before, Tiger Woods started the Memorial Tournament with a 2-under 70 that could have been better. It also could have been a whole lot
TT Postscript: Four three-putts hold Tiger back in opening
Tiger Woods on Sunday teared up, tapped in, put his arms in the air, and soaked in a redemption none of us will ever fully understand. TT Postscript: Tiger Woods captures PGA Tour win No. 80
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