How Tiger ‘figured out a way to come back’

NASSAU(BAHAMAS): “Man, it’s just... it’s just incredible. To have, you know, earn my way into another Green Jacket. And I finally came back from behind (to win),” says ace golfer Tiger Woods, on the fifth time he wore the Green Jacket recently at Augusta.

“Who knows what the future holds, but now I know that I can do it in different ways. I’ve won different tournaments around the world in different ways: from way behind, from way ahead, playing great, not playing well and anything in between—i’ve figured out ways to do it. Now I’ve finally figured out a way how to come back and win a major championship. Which, well, is rewarding,” adds the 43-yearold, whose dramatic life has been a subject of much awe and speculation.

Woods cheerily speaks about his children, and also his father, who piqued his interest in the Olympics (which he will participate in for the first time next year) by taking him to the archery event in Los Angeles 1984.

Ask him if he has moved on from the past, Woods shrugs. “Nah, and that’s life,” he says. “Life is about what we have done in the past and what could be in the future. Foresight or tomorrow is never promised. So, (I’m) living in the present and enjoying this moment,” he says in response to question by a veteran golf journalist.

In an interaction with journalists, Woods is asked about everything that plagued him from that fateful Thanksgiving Day of 2009 all the way to the end of the previous calendar year — the scandal, the bad back, the bust knee, the sabbatical, the rumours — Tiger answers it all and importantly, answers it with eloquence.