Then and Now: Tiger Woods Back at Royal Liverpool After Emotional 2006 Title

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Published: July 14, 2014

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Even the biggest Tiger Woods fan has to concede that there has often been a robotic undertone to his game and his demeanor. But don’t be surprised if he steps away from a shot this week, and a wave of obvious emotion sweeps across his normally steely face as the British Open returns to Royal Liverpool.

This course, in the English town of Hoylake, is where the world truly saw Woods' human side for the first time. It’s where he bared a piece of his soul and sobbed unabashedly for all the world to see after he sank the putt that cemented his 11th major championship in 2006.

Just two months removed from the death of the man he’s always called his mentor and best friend, tears rolled down Tiger’s cheeks as he openly grieved the loss of his father, Earl Woods.

It perhaps speaks volumes about how much has changed for Tiger since then that the three people who comforted him that day are no longer in his life.

Elin Nordegren, who has since divorced him; former swing coach Hank Haney, who in recent years has made a cottage industry out of criticizing Woods; and caddie Steve Williams, the one-time confidant who held Tiger close on the 18th green as he wept, were there to console Woods in 2006.

Afterward, Tiger readily admitted he had never before been so open with his emotions on a public stage, telling reporters that:

I've never done that. You know me. So I guess it's just all the things that we've gone through of late.

I guess I'm kind of the one who bottles things up a little bit and moves on, tries to deal with things in my own way.

But at that moment it just came pouring out and of all the things that my father has meant to me and the game of golf.

I just wish he could have seen it one more time.

Woods’ legion of followers now have a similar feeling, a hungering for another look at the Tiger of 2006 who dominated the B...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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