Get Ready for the Tiger Woods Circus at the 2015 Masters

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Published: April 4, 2015

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There’s a saying in golf that no person is bigger than the game…unless that person is Tiger Woods, who turns logic inside out and upside down. And his presence at the 2015 Masters, now that he confirmed his participation, will do exactly that.

Rory McIlroy’s attempt to win a career Grand Slam? Back page stuff. Open up the big top and send in the clowns. The Tiger Woods Circus is coming. It may only last a few days, but those few days will make golf relevant and wild once more.

It’s not Woods' fault. Yet, it is Woods' fault, because of who he has been—a Nike commercial come to life, a headline, a salesman, a scandal, a star—and for what he has done to become arguably the best golfer in history—or if you still go for Jack Nicklaus, as I do, then at the least the second-best golfer in history.

McIlroy arriving at Augusta atop the world rankings? Phil Mickelson striving to win his fourth Masters, which would equal Woods and Arnold Palmer? Jordan Spieth trying to reinforce the idea that he’s the future of American golf? Dustin Johnson, after a scandal of his own, coming in as hot as any golfer around? Piddling stuff.

First, we wondered if Woods would play the 2015 Masters next week, although the probability kept increasing as stories of his supposedly sharp practice rounds kept filtering out of Florida:



Now that it’s a go and he'll be in a tournament for the first time in two months, we have to wonder what it’s going to be like at Augusta National, where the spectators are called “patrons” and rules of deportment were established decades ago by the late Bobby Jones.

No running. No cheering mistakes, such as three-putts or failed bunker shots. Almost no breathing.

If Cypress Point Club, as deemed by former U.S. Golf Association president Sandy Tatum, is the "Sistine Chapel of golf...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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