Well, Tiger Woods answered yesterday’s question – can he find the magic again? – and did so emphatically. In a field of 156 golfers, one of them 15 years old, only two finished behind Tiger who shot an 80. There was no one thing wrong with his game. It was a total wreck and it left the broadcasters feeling embarrassed and borderline speechless. After Woods topped a shot and sent the ball skittering along the ground and into a fairway bunker, broadcaster Joe Buck’s reaction was, “He duffed it.” Something that has almost certainly never been said before about a Tiger Woods’ shot, on live television.
Greg Norman, Buck’s color man and expert analyst, responded with, “I don’t know what to say.” And he gets paid to say things.
It is possible Woods, who is still younger than Jack Nicklaus was when he won his last major tournament, will get “it” back.
He believes that, anyway.
If it happens, it will be a comeback for the ages.
