This week’s dreamy narrative is perfectly understandable. Should Tiger Woods, back in his native southern California, secure PGA Tour win No 83 the golf world may run out of Kleenex. Woods has a strangely patchy record at what is now the Genesis Invitational but that doesn’t matter for now; this was the first PGA Tour event he played in, as a 16-year-old in 1992. Earlier, he would visit Riviera Country Club to watch professionals he was merely hoping to emulate.
This week provides a wonderful paradox where Woods is concerned. Media duties included tales of a bygone age. There was one encounter between Tiger the spectator and the late Bruce Edwards, long-time caddie for Tom Watson. “Tom hit his ball to the back left pin, hit it left of the green, on the 8th,” Woods recalled. “I’m basically one of the only ones over there, Bruce was on the bag and I’m standing looking at the golf ball. He comes over and says, ‘Move out of the way, kid,’ and pushes me out of the way. I’m out on tour telling him this story and he says, ‘Well, you were in the way.’” And to think, Woods later teamed up with Steve Williams.
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