Tiger Woods is at his lowest ebb – his unravelling is no reason to revel | Ewan Murray


For all the personal turmoil this is a new nadir for a sporting great – let’s not forget what joy he brought to golf and how impossible this downfall once seemed

The celebration of that chip-in at Augusta National’s 16th in 2005. His tears on the final green at Hoylake after winning the Open the following year, two months after the death of his father. Winning the US Open in 2008, when in such physical distress he barely had the use of his left leg.

In a parallel universe these would be the lingering snapshot memories of Tiger Woods but on Monday, regardless of all the glory and the 14 major titles, the image which will inevitably become a Tiger Woods reference for years to come arrived via a Florida police station. His face, bloated and disconsolate, said far more than the hardly insignificant cause of him being detained in the first place, an arrest for suspicion of driving under the influence.

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