Yahoo Sports’ senior writer Jay Busbee reacts to the last golfer’s injury – a torn Achilles that will keep him away throughout the 2025 season – and why the 15 times major champion will always have the return flight on the golf course.
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Again, Tiger Woods lost a whole major season because of injuries.
Again, we ask, is this the end of the line so that the largest golfer has ever worn red and black on Sunday?
And again, we say no, there is no way that Tiger Woods comes out like that.
Now granted, he doesn’t look good.
Woods announced just before the start of the players he had broken his Achilles tendon and that the probability would lack the four majors of 2025.
This only added to the terrible series of the lucky luck of the majors that Woods has had in recent years outside Augusta.
He hasn’t even finished weekends at any major since the 2020 season.
It is a strong and clear contrast for the first part of Woods’ career where he used to devastate the field of 5,1015 strokes to these majors.
Now he can’t even finish them.
What he can do, however, is to come back again and again from the injury.
Why is it coming back?
Well, that’s the question there.
He has an intimate will.
He needs to prove himself.
He needs to prove that his skeptics are wrong, and he needs to play with his son.
He played with his son Charlie at the PNC tournament several times.
He said surgery was planned so that he could be ready to play with Charlie last season.
Whatever reason, Woods is a fighter and the woods will always be back.
Now there is almost no chance that he could catch the 18 majors of Jack Nicklaus and almost no chance that he won another tournament to break a link at the top of the ranking with Sam Snead with 82 PGA Tour victories.
But that doesn’t even really matter at this stage.
What matters is that Woods goes up again and again the bridge.
He continues to fight.
And this is what makes it even more relatable now than it was at the prevailing time.
So, we have certainly not seen the last of Tiger Woods, but it will certainly be sad not to see it this year.
