The last two majors – sixth at the Open, second in the US PGA – have proved that the 14-times major winner remains a live bet for another one, 11 years after his last
There will not be a more fantastical sport plotline in our lives than Tiger Woods’s Thanksgiving in 2009, when the incandescent career and immaculate public image of the world’s most dominant and influential athlete came spectacularly undone in the dead of a Florida night. The sordid details of the episode have been exhaustively documented and need not be recounted here. Suffice it to say the 14-times major winner never did regain the unassailable form that made him the first billion-dollar sportsman.
A brief flicker of hope a half-decade ago, when he won five tournaments and managed to regain the world No 1 ranking, appeared in time to represent the final sparks spitting from a burnt-out log on a fire before it goes out completely. Woods entered a scant nine of the 19 major championships staged from the 2013 US PGA Championship to the 2018 US Open, missing the cut five times and never finishing better than tied for 17th.
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