Tiger Woods’ triumph in Augusta was something way beyond numbers and quality.
Tiger Woods wore the famous green jacket for the fifth time — 14 years after the fourth. The measurements had surely changed but none cared for the dimensions. The man who changed the dynamics of golf 22 years ago by winning his first green jacket, by a whopping 12-stroke margin, had now given the world of sport probably what would rank among the greatest comebacks in an individual sport.
This was the moment those thronging the Augusta National Golf Club had come to see. This was not the first time a popular favourite had beaten the field at the Masters. This triumph was neither a record making effort nor the most clinical of Tiger’s five triumphs.
It was something way beyond numbers and quality.
This was a spectacular part of a man’s tale of redemption. A glorious chapter was added to a saga that could easily be titled, the “Rise and Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods.”
What made it different, from a spectator’s point of view was that he/she had a story for his/her grandchildren. It was one of a kind ‘I-was-there’ moment for those around the 18th green.
In those intervening 11 years — separating his last two Major triumphs — the real story lies buried. From conquests to controversies, from successes to surgeries, from respect to ridicule, from pedestal to prison, from revered to written off…, Tiger saw it all.
Worse, there was a time when Tiger could not perform his daily activities. Confined to bed-rest after one of the four back surgeries, Tiger even used his golf club, as a walking stick, to cover the distance from his bed to the washroom.
If 14 major titles between 1997 and 2008 reflect the glory of Tiger, life thereafter shows his battle with fitness interspersed by incidents of freefall from grace.
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