Masters 2014: Playing the Waiting Game with Tiger Woods

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Published: April 1, 2014

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The pain is physical, a back that aches when Tiger Woods swings a golf club, which he must do if he is to play the game.

The pain is mental. The Masters is just over a week away, a tradition like no other, as we’re so often reminded by Jim Nantz, a tradition to which Woods has contributed greatly. And Tiger, winner of four green jackets, is wondering whether he’ll compete.

The Masters and, over the last decade-and-a-half, the master. A combination, a one-two punch, for golf, for television ratings, for springtime.

Now he waits. Now we wait. Now he is a 38-year-old golfer with a bad back who has us wondering whether, for the first time as pro, he will be able to enter the Masters.

The answer, understandably, has not been immediately forthcoming.

“For Augusta, it’s actually a little too soon,” Woods said last week about whether he’ll be there the second Thursday in April, according to Barry Svrluga of The Washington Post.

Be there with Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and the rest of the sport’s elite.

Be there when the fans—“patrons,” they’re called—who crowd under the Georgia pines would be shouting, “Go get ‘em, Tiguh,” as he again chases that elusive 15th major.

A disappointing year for Woods. A frustrating year for Woods.



Just a couple of weeks ago, a withdrawal before the start of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a tournament at Bay Hill in Orlando, Arnie’s course, where Woods has won eight times.

“Unfortunately, my back spasms and the pain haven't subsided,” Woods wrote in announcing his withdrawal on his website.

Before that, Tiger came in tied for 80th in the Farmers at Torrey Pines, where he had seven victories, plus one in the 2008 U.S. Open; got a tie for 41st in Dubai; had a withdrawal...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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