An impressive practice round Monday had Tiger Woods leaning toward playing in the Masters tournament this week. He announced Tuesday that he plans to play.
Tiger Woods, fewer than 14 months removed from a catastrophic car accident that threatened his ability to walk, confirmed Tuesday that he intends to play in the Masters this week in pursuit of his sixth green jacket.
He would go on to win the Masters in 2001, ’02, ’05 and, in a career resurgence for the ages, 2019. That stirring victory three years ago was not only the first majors win for Woods in 11 years but was an improbable revival from a string of personal scandals that sullied his once-pristine image, as well as four back surgeries that once left him unable to get out of bed.
The lingering effects of those injuries were evident more than a year later Monday when Woods somewhat rigidly walked nine holes with Fred Couples and Justin Thomas, drawing a massive roving gallery reminiscent of the final group on a Masters Sunday. “That’s not how we work,” Couples said. “I love him as one of my best friends and I want to damn keep it that way, and I don’t pry into anything he does, but most of the texts were about his kids. Charlie got fitted for new clubs, his daughter, the speech, his daughter playing in soccer, and then all of a sudden he said, `I’m going to go to Augusta,’ — because he loves JT [Justin Thomas] and I and he wants to play these little practice rounds. That was his goal.
But Hughes conceded he had second thoughts about that last month when he attended the World Golf Hall of Fame ceremony and saw Woods, a new inductee, limp onstage.
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