It’s not hard to imagine Tiger Woods bending at the knees and cautiously lowering his body to put a tee into the moist grass of Augusta National’s first hole and making some quip about how accomplishing that feat was a big win.
Like Jack Nicklaus, the idol whose records he chased but never fully realized, Woods’s body is failing him. It has been for more than a decade and it’s fair to ask now whether Tiger is closer to joining Nicklaus as an honorary starter at the Masters than he is to competing for a sixth green jacket.
