As the world’s greatest golfers convene in Augusta, Georgia, this week for the Masters, it’s time for every sports fan’s annual rite of spring: wild speculation about whether Tiger Woods can add a fifth green jacket to his closet. Picking Woods used to be a trendy bet; then it began to feel like a totally […]
The feeling of inevitability Sunday was surprising. As Tiger Woods was decimating the small field at the Tour Championship to claim his 80th professional victory, ending a five-year winless drought, it felt simultaneously foregone and captivating. The 42-year-old with the fused spine held off the best players in the world in the prime of their […]
Tiger Woods has won golf tournaments in pretty much every corner of the map, from Australia to Dubai and even Japan. But the place where he’s dominated most is America’s heartland: the Midwest. He’ll get another chance to pad his numbers there in this week’s PGA Championship, at Bellerive Country Club in Missouri. Woods has […]
The United States could only humbly watch in recent weeks as the World Cup, among the most-viewed sporting events on the planet, mesmerized the globe. For those who didn’t drink their fill of overt nationalism, consider that U.S. men rule the roost of a different international sport: golf. A power structure that once heavily skewed […]
Tiger Woods returned to the Masters on Thursday for the first time since 2015, shooting an opening-round 1-over 73 and slotting into 29th place headed into Friday. One year after his fourth back surgery — and six months removed from talk that he might never play competitive golf again — the 42-year-old is in the […]