Date circumstaled on the calende did the father/son tournament, i think it was all to get ready for the moment, the masters is so important to him, so crucial to his entire career, successes and coming back from adversity in the past. it is not the golf itself. that could be the issue here. the swinging of the clubs. what he is most concerned about? the walking. it is funny, it is so simple, tiger s career spanned so many decades, so many injuries and been so complicated and now it is so simple. can he walk the course? can his surgically rebuilt right leg withstand the stress of not just four rounds in a row, he played on sunday, he played on monday, he practiced yesterday, and supposed to play more today. it is more like six or seven days of going up and down and augusta might be the toughest walk that these guys face all year. it is famously very hilly, undulating, no flat lies. if you could pick a golf course to return at, augusta might be the last one because of how difficult the
Wouldn t notice there was an injury. he looks perfect with the swing, the movement over the ball, looks comfortable. it is between them you can tell he s still working through something with his right leg, for sure. to that point, i understood that as the days have progressed, people have been able to notice a little bit of a limp. what arehave you seen? it is not like a limp as far as avoiding pain, it is his leg with all the hardware in there and all the surgeries, it is like the length of the leg is off and the angle of his ankle is off. so it is not like he s avoiding pain. it is that his right leg just isn t how it was before the accident. and i think that s kind of how he ll always walk, he ll feel better there will be less pain, but his movement will not get any smoother than it is right now because the right leg is just very, very different to how it was before the accident. so that s why he s wearing those shoes, those special shoes, we re seeing him for the first time n
You re looking at pictures there of the aftermath. joining me is golf digest staff writer dan rapaport. always good to see you. i have to confess, i m not sure i understand the suspense that tiger himself created this week. he went back to augusta, planning to play, nevertheless, this return is very dramatic. just explain to us how big a deal it is. couldn t be a bigger deal. consider where he was 14 months ago, his right leg crushed by the weight of an suv, the images you saw, it looked life threatening and certainly career threatening and then you don t hear from him for a couple of months and then whispers like maybe he s trying to play again, then drops that swing video out of nowhere and the hype train goes out of control and now back at the masters, the biggest golf tournament in the world on the 25 anniversary 25th anniversary of his first major win here in 1997. you couldn t write a more dramatic script. and i think the scene on thursday morning when he tees off is going to
That right leg now. so i think that s kind of how he ll walk for the foreseeable future. all right. level with me, in your heart of hearts, what do you project will happen? i think he s going to make the cut, he s never missed the cut here as a major and he s shown up with his game in pretty bad shape in 2015. he couldn t chip. he was chunking every chip and still finished tied for 17th. i think tiger would probably make the cut at the masters with one arm. but i don t see him contending. there is just not enough sharpness. in 2019, when he won after the back surgery, he had played a year and a half and looked really, really good, steadily building toward this moment. this is his first tournament in 17 months. so there is too many good players, too much sharpness required to contend at this level. but i do expect him to make the cut for sure. that last part, too many other good golfers out there to make him a favorite, however i would say i don t know that he would be there playi
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