On the verge of covering the tournament for a 22nd time, I offer up a list of the most compelling Masters moments I’ve witnessed, with a certain terminator in Sunday red dominating my memory bank a…
was trying to ace was high school algebra, I was asked to cover the Masters for the first time. And yet it has always felt like I started covering golf’s signature event in 1997, when a 21-year-old Woods grabbed the entire sport by the throat.
He famously shot 40 on his opening nine holes of that tournament before playing the next nine in 30 then destroying the field in record fashion. This was the dawn of a staggering new era in the game, as Woods would prove that a golfer — of all things and of all people — could stand among the three or four most recognizable figures on the planet.
My desire to cover the Masters going forward was really tethered to my desire to cover Woods’ attempts to keep winning it. It’s been a hell of a ride for him at Augusta National — including five indelible triumphs, a few heartbreaking defeats, one inappropriate scolding from the club chairman over his infidelity and one comeback from career-threatening back injuries to end all Masters comebacks.
That was in 2019, after a Hail Mary of a spinal-fusion surgery pulled him from the brink of early retirement and. Three years later, Woods seems poised to attempt yet another comeback that could top them all. If he makes it to the first tee Thursday — not even 14 months after he crashed his SUV south of Los Angeles and nearly lost his right leg — that will make for what old newspaper writers used to call good copy. Really good copy.
Meanwhile, on the verge of covering the tournament for a 22nd time, I offer up a list of the most compelling Masters moments I’ve witnessed, with a certain terminator in Sunday red dominating my memory bank as much as he dominated the field.This was the first and only time I scored a Masters ticket, which I gave to my big brother — it turned out to be our last trip together before his death, elevating it to my personal No. 1 on the all-time list of sporting events I’ve covered over 36 years.
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