Dream of Vintage Tiger Woods Returning Is Dead After Torrey Pines Withdrawal

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Published: February 6, 2015

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SAN DIEGO — It seemed as symbolic as it was sad. There was the man, Eldrick Woods, the one and only Tiger, driving away into a coastal fog that, if it didn’t obscure his future—he’s done—it certainly did the future of golf.

Why does it always have to end like this for the great ones—injuries and ailments and worst of all an inability to perform with the magnificence they once did?

Willie Mays, stumbling around for the Mets, went out not even with a whimper but with an embarrassing tumble to the depths.

Is it nature getting the last laugh, Father Time cackling as he waves a bony finger? Is it inevitable?

A torn Achilles for Kobe Bryant one season, then a torn rotator cuff the next. The end is near, no matter what he thinks, no matter how hard he tries to regain what he once had, throwing in jumpers, slamming down dunks.

The end is also near for Tiger, beset by unending torment, a back that after surgery, layoffs and rehab seems destined to haunt him for the rest of a declining career.



A week ago at Phoenix, Woods simply couldn’t play, chipping like someone who’s never held a club before, but he said he felt fine. "Give him time. He needs time," said the experts. Yet he is 39, going on 60, and time is his enemy.

On Thursday in the opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, a course where he's had so many magnificent triumphs, including that memorable 2008 U.S. Open, Woods went 11 holes and then, the pain evident from his facial expression, walked off.

"It's frustrating," he said. "I was ready to go."

The hopes were there. So were the memories of the best of Tiger Woods. He had won nine times at Torrey, one of those triumphs as an amateur.  "Let the legend grow," his late father Earl Woods said. And did it grow.

Seventy-nine PGA Tour victories, 14 majors, records ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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