Golf: "I'm going to play...", Tiger Woods confirms his return to the Augusta Masters

The Tiger roars again.

Tiger Woods announced this Tuesday live on most American TVs that he was going to play from this Thursday, April 7, the Augusta Masters, one of the four major tournaments of the little white ball: "For the moment, I'm going to play.

It is a question of knowing how my body will recover from this effort and what it is capable of doing the next day” soberly declared the one who is not just a simple golf player.

For 25 years, he has been THE golfer, the greatest player of all time.

To find out if he was going to play the tournament and announce his return, the Americans in recent days have tracked his private plane on specialized applications to find out if he was flying in the direction of Georgia and Augusta.

Each of his outings remains an event.

In December 2021, he had hit a few balls with his son in a charity tournament and, already, the event had gone on a loop on social networks.

The phrase the golf world has been waiting for!

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If his announcement – ​​when he is 46 years old – is also an event, it is because Tiger Woods, once again, has come a long way, from very very far.

13 months ago, on February 23, 2021 in the Los Angeles area, the only person in the world worshiped by a certain Michael Jordan was the victim of a serious road accident.

He was apparently driving too fast and lost control of his vehicle.

Result of the crash: multiple open fractures in the legs and repeated operations for weeks.

After such an accident, a normal person would probably never have been able to walk again.

But it is not Tiger Woods who wants: “It was a difficult path to take.

To say that I was going to come back here to play seemed very unlikely to me,” he slips.

Not only does he walk again, but he says he is capable of playing one of the most difficult tournaments in the world, facing the best players on the planet and for four days for a total of 72 holes.

“I can hit the ball very well.

I have no doubts about what I can do golf-wise.

The walking is the hard part,” he said.

He obviously does not come just to participate.

When, on Tuesday, the media asked him if he was able to win the tournament, Tiger Woods replied: “Yes, of course, I think so.

I think I can win the Masters this week.

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Modest 973rd player in the world

Tiger Woods is indeed the greatest golfer in history, one of the greatest champions of all sports in the last quarter of a century.

He has won 15 Grand Slam tournaments in his career: five Masters, three US Opens, three British Opens and four US PGAs.

It was in Augusta in 1997 that Tiger Woods, then barely 20 years old, burst into the eyes of the world by winning this tournament.

In Augusta;

He's at home.

In 2019, he had already achieved one of the greatest comebacks in the history of sport by winning the Masters.

This is also where he played in 2020, his last official tournament.

It has been a long time since Tiger Woods is no longer the world number 1.

Invited to the Masters as a former winner, he will appear this Thursday at the first drive in the shoes of the 973rd player in the world.

He doesn't come back for the money either: his personal fortune is estimated at more than 1.5 billion euros, which makes him one of the richest sportsmen of all time.