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Oh, you know, I'm only here if I can win the tournament.
I think it comes off as a little bit delusional in that sense, which is fine.
But I also don't know that we need to be buying into this idea of like, well, could Tiger pull off a miracle?
Like, there's a lot of other stories that are perhaps more interesting in that sense.
And I don't know that we benefit as a media by hanging on to the idea of could Tiger win a
for longer and longer until it's actually like, hey, it's Saturday afternoon at the Masters, and he's, man, he's two shots off.
Maybe this is interesting.
I think what's interesting, you think about the people's perspective who are there.
I would say at least half of the people who are there, it's the only time they've ever been to the Masters and the only time they'll ever go to the Masters.
So their feeling is, well, I want to see Tiger at the Masters.
I don't care what he shoots.
I want to have that experience to be able to always say, man, I walked around Damon Corner and saw Tiger hit it into 12 or go for it in two on 15 or 13.
And so that energy is like a part of the fan experience in a lot of ways.
But I think from a media perspective, it's almost like a sort of a false god in the sense of...
man, are we really going to write this story again of like, whoa, could Tiger get in this?
Could he have a chance?
The players who are in their prime and are more likely to actually win, they don't seem to mind it because the spotlight kind of then turns a little bit away.
And Rory has talked about this of like, well, there was a few years where I thought I was going to be able to fly under the radar a little bit because Tiger was the whole story.
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