TULSA, Okla. — Tournament-week Tiger Woods above the previous two-in addition a long time has normally been about the end outcome. Win or fail.
Here’s the routine:
Woods demonstrates up at the match, is questioned if he thinks he can win and he provides whomever is asking a glimpse like, “Are you kidding me? I really don't display up at a match unless I consider I’m going to get.’’
5 back surgical procedures later on and that February 2021 vehicle crash that nearly price him his correct leg, and event 7 days anticipations have been at minimum slightly altered.
Woods simply playing four rounds at the Masters past month at Augusta National was an accomplishment potentially more remarkable than the five environmentally friendly jackets he’s won. His tie for 47th that 7 days be damned, the fact that he was even playing was some thing to behold.
On Tuesday, two days just before the PGA Championship is to start off at Southern Hills, Woods, who’ll be paired with Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth in the initial two rounds, was requested “how confident’’ he is that he can contend this week and perhaps gain.
“I truly feel like I can, definitely,’’ Woods claimed. “I just have to go out there and do it. I have to do my operate. Begins on Thursday and I’ll be all set.’’
Woods, who’s won 4 PGA Championships like in 2007 when it was past performed at Southern Hills, is buoyed by how a lot far better he feels bodily than he did at Augusta.
Woods reported physically he feels “better than the previous time I performed a event.’’
Woods said he informed himself of hilly Augusta: “The initially mountain you climbed was Everest. That’s the steepest golf course you are heading to perform and that was the to start with a person [and] you climbed it. It’s heading to get flatter and much better.
“I experience like I’m performing much better,’’ Woods claimed of his actual physical state. “I’m obtaining more days in which [I’m] superior, much more beneficial. [I’m] ready to exercise a tiny bit for a longer time. I’m equipped to do activities and things that I was hoping to do.’’
Woods shot 1-beneath 71 in the initial spherical at the Masters and adopted it with a 74, earning the lower comfortably, which was a sizeable accomplishment taking into consideration the state he’d been in bodily just months previously. But he was visibly gassed on the weekend, capturing a pair of 78s.
Even however he didn’t see it that way at the time, it was just one of the couple of periods in Woods’ profession where simply just collaborating was winning.
“Everyone around me was really joyful and ecstatic that I acquired around all 72 holes,’’ Woods claimed. “I did not see it that way on Monday. I was a minor ticked I didn’t putt perfectly, and felt like I was hitting it excellent ample and I desire I had the stamina. You know, it is a typical, typical golfer, the ‘what ifs, if I would have carried out this, I would have finished that, would have finished this.’
“But using a action again and searching at the over-all large picture of it, it was an accomplishment. But that other aspect of me that suggests if I would have done matters in another way, I could have challenged for that factor. And I know that golfing course, and I just … perhaps subsequent 12 months will be unique.’’
Maybe this week will be distinct.
Justin Thomas was one of the number of in the interior circle who frequented Woods at residence in Florida after he was released from the Los Angeles hospital right after he crashed his SUV, so he has a rather superior perspective on how significantly Woods has appear and what an accomplishment it was for him to play Augusta last thirty day period and be in Tulsa this 7 days.
“It was incredibly significant,’’ Thomas mentioned Tuesday when questioned about Woods participating in the Masters. “I feel it was in the again of his head like it would be wonderful, but I really do not consider he under no circumstances actually understood until eventually it maybe bought near. But it was awesome. I was delighted for him.
“I’ve observed how tricky he’s labored. At the same time, he’s not a usual human being. If he requirements to have two or 3 classes a day to have a probable staying completely ready a 7 days earlier, he’s going to do that, whilst a ton of men and women, they do not truly make it a priority. It is great to see him there and once more in this article this 7 days.’’
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