Chapter 1: What recent updates did Tiger Woods share about his health?
Tiger Woods was speaking to the media yesterday. He was talking about coming back and some of the things that he's dealing with. And of course, he's had major surgeries. He's had the Achilles, he's had back fusions. It's just, I mean, he is bionic man at this point. He just had his 50th birthday party. That was a huge deal and a big celebration.
Chapter 2: What challenges has Tiger Woods faced after his surgeries?
I mean, 50 is 50. And he is still in tremendous shape as far as his fitness goes. Looks great. He does look great. And he was asked a direct question about the Masters. Have you ruled out coming back for the Masters? And he said no. And then everybody's getting excited about that. I mean, I am at the point now. I do not want to see him play another Masters. It's not going to go well.
It's just the 2019 thing was as special as possible. I know he's come back and played in a couple more. He is in no shape whatsoever to walk two days, much less four days, if he makes the cut. at Augusta just to prove to what? I don't need to see him any longer. I really don't because I feel like the memories are just going to be worse.
I don't need that image in my head of him hobbling around and not being able to make shots and grimacing and all these things that we've seen. I mean, I would agree.
And this year, there's no point. He's not going to win. He said when they asked him about is he hitting a golf ball, he said, well, not well. He goes, I'm getting there, but I'm not hitting it well. It's already the end of February, middle of February. So I do agree with you. But I think if he got himself in shape and if this particular back procedure actually takes and he is healthy... Why not?
I mean, we see Freddie Couples, who's 70-something years old, still puts together competitive rounds. Yeah, but Freddie Couples was never Tiger Woods. Yeah, but I think the image of Tiger Woods playing a competitive round at Augusta National is still, I still think it's something to see. I mean, it doesn't tarnish what he's done.
Yeah, I know, but for some people, it's just almost sad at this point. Was it sad watching Jack?
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Chapter 3: Why is there skepticism about Tiger Woods playing in the Masters?
I didn't think so. I thought it was watching a legend, a place that he dominated as a younger player. I thought it was really cool watching him.
But he never had the drastic fall off that Tiger did. And, I mean, Jack, too, was as great as he was and as before my time. I mean, the 86 Masters, which was obviously, you know, later on in his career, I was only four years old. He was 46 years old. Yeah, but I was only four, so it's hard for me to totally speak about that.
But, I mean, you know, Tiger was a cultural phenomenon and then had this epic crash out. And it's different to me than Arnold Palmer playing when he's older or Gary Player who's still, like, he's almost 90 years old and he's doing karate kicks on the driving range. It's something different about a hobbled...
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Tiger Woods potentially returning to competitive golf?
humbled Tiger Woods who almost died in a car accident, whose whole personal life was spilled out, who had issues with the painkiller addiction, who was pulled over and was a mess. There's just so many things about him that you can point to and be like, man, that was rough watching that. That was rough watching that. I don't need any more of that was rough watching that with him.
Now, if he wants to go on the Champions Tour or take a cart and revive that whole thing and get people to watch it and maybe compete and win against those guys, All right, I can make a case for that.
He did admit that it's something he is thinking about, which I think would be cool. But I do, I mean, we can agree to disagree. I would still pay to watch him if I could see him play at the Mets, if he was physically capable of doing it, because it's still a walking legend. To me, nothing will ever tarnish his reputation more than the Perkins thing and all the girls. He survived that.
I mean, watching him shoot 74 at Augusta National, to me, I still think would be a treat. But... All good. I do think I would like to see him on the Champions Tour, though, which is something I never thought he would do. I thought he even said that at one point, that he would not play the Champions Tour. But he seemed open to it yesterday, which is kind of neat.
Yeah, that to me, because I feel like he can compete with those guys and be in the mix, and I would watch that. But I can't see him up there on the same tee box as a guy like Chris Goderup, who's hitting the ball 395 yards, and then Tiger gets up there and hits it 40, 50 yards behind him and then limps up to his ball and grimaces every time he swings the club.
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Chapter 5: How do Tiger Woods' past performances impact current expectations?
Well, again, I'm talking about really good health and hoping. But he can't be in really good health anymore.
It's impossible. Yeah. this surgery actually takes. Maybe he could be. I mean, he's done it so many different ways. He's talking about the different disc replacements. I mean, you do that hoping to get back to close to 100%. If not, he's just going to live a life of pain.
Which he has been doing for years now. I mean, that's what the whole painkiller thing and all of that. I mean, it's been bad. It's been ugly.
If that's what he's still dealing with, then no, I don't want to see him go limp around. That's a different, that's like, you know, the old player in his final year hobbling around and he looks like a shell of himself for sure. But if he's physically capable of it and he's not limping around and he actually does feel 100%, then I would like to see it. But I don't know that we'll ever get there.
But I do think the Champions Tour is a very real possibility.
Can you think of somebody else? I mean, I guess Jordan on the Wizards towards the end there where you were like, okay, enough.
Like, this is now. Yeah, but it's interesting with Jordan because you're right. At the end, it was enough, and yet he still had those moments of greatness that was worth the price of admission. And I guess that's what I mean. Like, if he's going to go out there and shoot in 74, 75 at Augusta, two days and see you for sure.
But you still might get that glimpse of the hole-in-one or whatever the case might be, a birdie on a par five or an eagle on a par five. It's still you get the glimpse of what he was. I still think it's a neat thing that people would go watch.
Yeah, I mean, golf's an interesting sport and different in a lot of ways because you can be 50 years old and compete. I mean, Justin Rose in his 40s and mid-40s is doing – How old is Justin Rose? I'm going to Google it.
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Chapter 6: What are the differences between Tiger Woods and other aging golf legends?
And that's sort of the way... I feel about Tiger because there's so many other ways he influences the game. Him just being around is great. Him showing up somewhere and just being an ambassador is great. And just the struggles. I mean, I see him on. He was trying his best because that whole TGL thing, he part owns that. Yeah.
So he's trying his best to go out there and hit these golf balls and be a part of it. And he hasn't been this year yet because he hasn't been healthy enough. But prior to the, you know, the Achilles thing, you know, he's grimacing. He's out there. He's hitting the balls. I'm just like, oh, you know, I mean, and if he if he just it's almost better for him to just show up.
have a mic on, bust guys' balls, as opposed to grab the club at this point. That's just the way that I feel about it and the memories that are there. Nothing will tarnish it at this point. After everything you went through, like you said, but I just don't think there's – it's more of a distraction to me with the young players and everything.
If he's playing in the Masters and it would be something I'd be looking forward to. Well, you bring up another good thing, the young players that get to play with him. Yeah, I mean, Neil Shipley, that was a good example.
You know, the low amateur last year at the Masters is this, you know, 20-something-year-old kid out of Pittsburgh who gets to play with Tiger in that final round, and he's got that, you know, that great moment. But, I mean, how many people, casual sports fans or even golf fans, remember any of that whole thing last year? I don't know.
I do because I think I'm a little more than a casual sports fan, but you're probably right. I mean, so he did that for what? I mean, it's a great memory for Neil Shipley. He can tell that story all over the place. But, I mean, him being out there in one of these groupings early in the morning on Sunday at Augusta is just like, does it do anything for you?
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