Pacific Palisades – We found a cruel reminder on Friday, which Tiger Woods still mean PGA Tour, and is generally golf.
He is no longer an old tiger, like an old tiger. He has a newly newly branded line of apparel-he always wore the Sundays in the name of the red shirt when he was in the victim-but he could not be really expected to win or even get closer every time, as the case was in the old days.
When he teased it in Riviera this week, it was his first PGA tour activity since last year’s Masters, when his legs and ankle injuries forced him after two rounds and eventually underwent ankle surgery.
And when he went back to a club house on a cart on a cart on Friday after 272-yard tea, he shot in the fairway on the seventh hole, withdrawn due to illness … Well, a golf channel commentator put it in such a way: “The crowd is grumbling because they try to find out where they want to go ahead.”
It was not her back or her ankle, two distortions that have limited her in recent years. It was flu -like symptoms and dehydration. But the effect was the same: an intestine punch for a tournament that thanks to the presence of Woods, and the TV was attracted to the audience.
Speaking for Tiger on Friday afternoon, TGR Ventures Executive Vice President Rob McManara said, “This morning, (symptoms) were worse than last night.” “He had a little fever, and it was better during warm-up, but then when he came out of there and was walking and playing, he started dizzy.
“He is treated with an IV bag and he is doing much better, is much better and he will soon be released here on his own.”
Gary Woodland, who was one of Woods playing partners – and Woods in the tournament was at a sponsor exemption from hosting the tournament, with more than 2023 brain tumors and after undergoing surgery in September – he said that he could not feel good. “He just didn’t look right,” Woodland said.
He also said:
“Obviously, everything is better with him.”
It is a relief that it was a disease rather than another injury. But, as the TV man said, who are the patrons now pay attention?
This brings us into a dilemma of the game, even beyond a hypocritical tour and when Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, which shuts down live golf, or beyond uncertainty, will reach an agreement to help the PGA tour funds and perhaps bring back the very good players of the game together.
Beyond him: When tiger is done, who on the tour – either the tour – can get the attention of the contingent fan so easily, or even close?
someone? Any ??
It is stating that this week with a very good area in Riviera, in which La-region stars Patrick Cantley (36-Hole Leader in 13-under), Colin Moricawa, Max Homa and Sahith Thegala, Jinmons Galries followed Woods. Probably, hopefully, he will feel enough to perform his duties as a tournament host by the end of this week, but it is almost not the same.
Still it is coming.
Woods is now 48 years old. He needs another tour to win Sam Saneed to pass the all -time list, but his last came to the Zozo Championship in Japan in October 2019. In 51 weeks, he has competed in 15 tournaments earlier this week. This is partially because the epidemics abolished the schedule in 2020 and ’21, and partially due to their own physical limitations, including two days after the 2021 origin invitation and the horrific automobile accidents, which had placed them for several weeks at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
In the last two years, he extended his competitive year towards big companies. In 2022, he finished 47th in the Masters, withdrew from the PGA Championship and missed the British open cut in the old course in St. Andrews. Last year he finished 45th here, withdrew after two rounds in Augusta and was not again competitively seen in Bahmas until his own hero World Challenge.
This year his goal, he said, was to play once a month. He did not look good Friday, and some of them were the result of illness. But it was also another reminder that the father time is undefined.
Woods mentioned on Thursday after the 1-over-Burbar 73 of Thursday that inactivity rusted a certain amount of rust, as well as a back and ankle which is connected and still sometimes recorded their complaints. Asked if it can be new or if playing once a month, he could be able to maintain any kind of rhythm, he said:
“I don’t know what it looks like. I hope this is the case, hope that I play so much. As far as physical ups and downs are concerned, it is just a part of my body, this is the same that is the same. It is this. It is all right, I accept it and accept challenges. I want to do a better work at home.”
(Somewhere, the father’s time is just amazed.)
True, this tour has survived without the daily or frequent appearance of the tiger. And Sunday has more equality and more mystery, which was in the day of tiger dominance. Still, doesn’t it still seem that something is missing in weeks when he does not play?
Some athletes are stars in their game. Other – like the tiger, like Labron James, like Shohi Ohtani – cross it, where people who do not follow the game know what you are talking about. And if you run a game, or are it in charge of marketing and the most ophthalmology is possible on Venue or in front of their TV, will you not have later? Or be afraid of the possibility of taking them in their place?
This is finally going to happen – but it is expected that sooner.
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