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Tiger Woods is taking up all the attention in golf with the Masters approaching. That’s not always a good thing.
Woods has been the center of golf’s universe his entire professional career, if not longer, as one of the few athletes who not only lived up to potential but surpassed it. That hasn’t changed, even with him having not competed in a serious tournament in 20 months.
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And it doesn’t matter if he plays in the Masters.
Woods was planning to be at Augusta National, anyway. He was scheduled to appear with Masters chairman Fred Ridley on Sunday evening to celebrate the opening of “The Patch,” the refurbished municipal course where Woods’ design firm was asked to build a short course (“The Loop”).
Then there’s the Masters Club dinner Tuesday night, held exclusively for Masters champions since 1952. No one wants to miss that.
Does he go? Should he go?
These are uncomfortable questions consuming the Masters, the tournament golf fans look forward to more than any other because of the familiarity of Augusta National and because it will have been 263 days since the last major. In golf, Georgia is always on the mind.
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At stake for Woods is no longer a Masters green jacket or any other trophy.
Now it’s about his legacy.
That probably won’t change as a golfer. Even after returning following his sudden and shocking downfall in 2009 — sordid details of serial adultery that were exposed when his SUV crashed into a fire hydrant — fans flocked to watch him because he’s Tiger Woods.
The other three car incidents — all in the last nine years — raised a different set of questions.
Toxicology reports indicated five medications in his system when he was found asleep behind the wheel of his running car in 2017. Woods didn’t know where he was or how he got there. At one point, a police officer told Woods his shoe was untied. Woods fumbled with the laces when the officer said: “It’s your other shoe that’s untied. Now that one is, too.”
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Four years later, Woods was going nearly twice the 45 mph speed limit on a coastal road outside Los Angeles when his SUV struck a median and tumbled down…
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Author : DOUG FERGUSON
Publish date : 2026-03-31 19:56:00
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