Tiger Woods cannot go back to golf enough. Everything to keep it out of social networks.
Words have first rarely heard from Woods – “Love is in the air” – in his article on social networks last week Confirming that he was in a relationship with the former daughter-in-law of President Donald TrumpAccompanied by two photos, one of them snuggled on a hammock.
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More confusing, of course, was to publish the photos with a plea for privacy. But it was completely out of his game book a decade ago when he went out with the big ski Lindsey vonn. Provide evidence (photos) to devalue and discourage paparazzi.
Tuesday brought something new from Woods – a joke from April’s fools.
“I can’t believe I say that”, Woods wrote on xAnother sentence that he rarely uses: “But a few weeks after having broken my left Achilles, sleep in a hyperbaric room and the explosive elevators that my doctors and trainers have ready to play the masters next week! I can’t wait! See on the course.”
He waited six minutes before clarifying that yes, It was a joke.
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“My Achilles is still in disorder,” he wrote.
The fact that so many people have fallen for this is largely an example of social media destroying brain cells and in part because so many people still have hope for their return.
Bernhard Langer had a tear in his Achilles tendon and remarkably returned to the PGA Tour champions in three months, although he used a cart. Woods said it was a breakupThis means that 2025 will be another year lost in the majors, the only tournaments he still plays.
Besides, what is someone hoping to see?
Between the equipment holding his right leg and his ankle together, a sixth surgical intervention on the lower back, an Achilles Rompu tendon and a birth certificate which shows him a 50 -year turn at the end of the year, the The future is also cloudy As forecasts for Augusta National next week.
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And it was like that for a while.
During the five years which followed the return of the golf of the closure of the pandemic – which includes a full year in 2021 when Woods underwent serious leg injuries from his car accident outside Los Angeles – he played 18 tournaments and did not finish closer to 12 shots from the winner in the 11 times that he managed to obtain 72 holes.
His biggest feat was to cut the Masters last year for a record 24th time. Woods never missed weekends to Augusta National as a pro.
Without a doubt, this first full week in April for golf has become synonymous with yellow jasmine, azales pink, white dogs and a red shirt on Sunday.
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The woods in an Augusta national are special. Always will be.
Gene Sarazen, who put the masters on the map in 1935 with her famous “Shot Heard` Round The World” when he fired 15th Fairway for an Albatros, made his last cup at 61 and played until the age of 71, then became a honorary starter until his death.
Sarazen was 90 years old when he told this jewel of a conversation with the president of the masters: “I told Hord Hardin that I was getting too old to play in the masters, but he kept saying:” Gene, they don’t want to see you play. They just want to see if you’re still alive. “”
Woods has not been competitive for over five years, but it is difficult to imagine that it will not be back. And if it is good enough to win a US Open on one leg, there is enough cause to see a little magic.
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Even a starting blow be enough to satisfy his fans? Probably not. In addition, being an honorary starter is not part of his Golf DNA.
Curtis Strange, twice champion of the US Open who works for ESPN at the Masters, raised this prospect during a conference call on Monday.
“These great players, superstars, have always spoken of never wanting to be a ceremonial player or something for this purpose, as if it was negative,” said Strange. “I want to see him in Augusta for a long time in the future playing. He will not play as he wants, but I think people would like to see him. ”
It’s too early for that. Wait until next spring, when the “tradition unlike no other” includes monitoring its private jet for Augusta for a screening trip to raise hopes and woods organizing a press conference on Tuesday in front of the most public media and playing a training session with Fred couples.
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“I hope he will come back where he can play. We don’t even know if he can play again. It goes badly,” said Strange. “But above all here, where he can come back and be comfortable and be right there. People cannot have enough. We cannot have enough of him.
“It would be sad that he does not come back here and would not play in the future.”
In the meantime, Rory McILroy could have his best blow for finally winning the Masters Green Jacket to finish the big career goals. Scottie Scheffler goes after his third green jacket in four years – no one has done it from Jack Nicklaus about 40 years ago.
Azaleas should break out. Customers will roar. Masters continue.
But there will be no tiger. No joke.
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