TIGER Woods was still the hottest topic not only among golfers but practically all sports buffs during the Holy Week. His recent Masters victory has simply become his most talked about major—as if his first 14 majors had not been spectacularly won as well.
In ending his 11-year losing streak in majors play, Woods’ recent feat was deemed the greatest comeback in golf.
I can only agree.
Playing with just one good leg in 2008, Woods won the PGA Championship.
A year later, his multiple infidelities was exposed, shattering his marriage. In a messy divorce, his wife got $100 million.
He next did rehab to cure his sex addiction.
He was disgraced, suffered more injuries, went under the knife to repair his knees and had his back fused at least four times.
In 2017, he was found asleep at dawn inside his Benz improperly parked on a freeway—the car’s engine still running.
The police stumbled into a dazed Woods from a massive drug intake to ease back pains.
Although he got out of the fix virtually unscathed, Woods would next tell himself he was through with golf.
There was but one person who believed he could recover from all his miseries: Tida, his Thai mother.
Two years after fixing his game, if not his life, Woods bagged his fifth green jacket—the 14-year wait finally paying off last April 14.
Dramatically, fittingly, Tida was among the first to hug Woods after his victory. Tida was with Woods’ two children, Sam and Charlie
The Masters final threesome of Woods, Francesco Molinari and Tony Finau had been battling tooth and nail before I said to myself, two holes in the Final 9 will decide the champion: Nos. 12 & 16, both par-3s.
True enough as both Molinari and Finau got wet on 12 but not Woods.
On 16, Woods planted a 9-iron at the exact spot where he wanted it to be, the ball gently rolling a little over a foot past the cup. Birdie.
By then, Woods had it practically wrapped up.
After a routine par on 17 for a two-shot lead going 18, even a last-hole bogey for Woods was luxury enough.
From 708th after the 2017 Masters, Woods is now No. 6 in the world.
Wait till the year’s remaining three majors are done away with.