We haven’t seen him play aggressive golf outside for the reason that Open Championship of July 2024, his solely motion a nine-shot cameo in this week’s TGL indoor simulator finals.
Of late, Woods’ major affect has been off the course, chairing the PGA Tour’s Future Competitions Committee.
It is a comparatively current appointment, however for the very best a part of 5 years he has been on the forefront of shaping the tour’s response to the arrival of the breakaway LIV Golf circuit.
He was too busy to take America’s Ryder Cup captaincy final yr and is presently weighing up whether or not to simply accept the job for the 2027 match at Adare Manor in Ireland.
But such roles, returning to motion (he has registered for June’s US Senior Open) and certainly any public-facing actions have been upended in the best way his Range Rover flipped on to its facet on Friday afternoon.
Police officers are analysing skid marks on Jupiter Island’s 30mph South Beach Road to gauge the pace of the 82-time tour winner’s automobile whereas trying his ill-fated overtake manoeuvre.
Prosecutors want to construct their case on three prices: driving beneath affect (regardless of passing a breathalyser check for alcohol), refusing to provide a urine pattern and harm to property.
Regardless of whether or not he is ready to play on the Masters, Woods was anticipated to be in Georgia for the revealing of The Patch – a revamped public golf course he has labored on with the Augusta National membership. He was additionally trying ahead to Rory McIlroy’s champion’s dinner on the Tuesday night time.
Instead, speak reveals throughout America and past are into overdrive on a far much less healthful agenda, speculating in regards to the turbulent lifetime of this elite sportsman – somebody who has loved and endured extra excessive highs and lows than just about every other.
Trying to play the Masters, attempting to hit a ball 300 yards, escaping from the sand, holing a fragile three-footer or attempting to mastermind the way forward for males’s skilled golf or captaining his nation all pale in significance now.
Tiger Woods’ priorities should lie elsewhere. He is in a bunker of a unique form. Recurring highway incidents had already proven a deeply troubled facet to this supreme champion.
And it has occurred once more.
