THE MEAN MUG IS BACK BAYBAY."īut then, a funny thing. The Golf Channel's Tiger Tracker, a person who anonymously follows and posts about Woods's every shot, tweets: "Remember when he was high-fiving fans and having fun or whatever? Yeah forget that. Fans are mobbing for an angle, for a glimpse. A killer, even on the doorstep of a win nobody-not even Woods himself-could imagine just last year. Stoic and steely eyed, Woods walks toward the green.
If not for the iPhones, it could be 2000.
#QuickHits /etE6VJksjW- PGA TOUR September 23, 2018Īnd damn if it doesn't look like the glory days. A breeze away from failure.Ī big break for Tiger Woods. But, no, the ball narrowly misses tumbling into the drink. Woods flights an iron and- gulp-the shot looks short. The green at the par-3 15th is surrounded by water. Woods is up-things seem in control-but then the wheels start shaking. The 15th hole at Atlanta's East Lake Golf Club. Let's get to the moment promised in the headline. Hell, a year ago, headlines happily blared that Woods had been medically cleared to twist his back a half-rotation and chip golf balls. Woods agreed.įellow golf legend Nick Faldo relayed a story that, during the height of his back pain, Woods reportedly whispered to a fellow champion during the Masters Tournament dinner, "I'm done. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was over. I'd have to either just fall to the floor or just stay in bed." "And there were some days where you'd help me and I couldn't stand up. "For the better part of four to six months, I had to be helped out of bed every day," he told ESPN in an interview earlier this year. To put a finer point on the thing-he did it in the final tournament of the season against the best players in the world, all of whom were in good form.īefore getting a back fusion operation in April 2017-his fourth back surgery, overall-Woods wasn't injured.
It has been five years since he last won-1,876 days, to be exact.
#Tiger woods has gone home registration#
The 46-year-old has already confirmed his registration for the US Open at The Country Club in Brookline on June 16-19, along with six-time major champion Phil Mickelson, but Beem believes it would be sensible to skip the event to prepare for The 150th Open at St Andrews on July 14-17.Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship on Sunday. Woods is a five-time winner of the Jack Nicklaus-hosted event, with this year's contest marking the 10th anniversary of the most recent of those successes, although it would appear unlikely he can recover from his latest setback to feature from June 2-5. That competitive sharpness, that ability to not hit sloppy shots and that ability to turn three shots into two around the greens, which we haven't seen a lot of." Where would Woods likely play next?Įven before Woods' schedule was hampered by injuries in recent years, the only stop he would traditionally make in June ahead of the US Open would be the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village. "There was a lot of momentum going in and a lot of good play for him going into winning The Masters and that's what he's lacking at the moment. He won the FedExCup a few months earlier, had played really well early in the season and had played six or seven events that year going into The Masters. "When he won in 2019 at The Masters, everyone was talking about it being this great comeback and him coming out of nowhere, but he didn't. Woods said he was pleased with his second-round performance at the PGA Championship which saw him make the cut
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