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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods was on his way to falling apart Friday at the Masters when something strange happened. He didn’t.
Struggling on a windy, chilly day that grew grayer by the hour, his face frozen in a pained grimace much of the day, the 46-year-old Woods somehow managed to claw his way through a challenging second round to easily make the cut in his first competitive tournament since the November 2020 Masters.
That is a sentence worth repeating: Tiger Woods made the cut at the Masters less than 14 months after crashing his SUV, shattering his right leg and fearing that he might lose the leg or never walk again.
It wasn’t easy; he started horribly by bogeying four of the first five holes Friday, his worst start in 92 rounds at the Masters going back to his amateur days in 1995. But he said later he was proud of how he fought back, making four birdies in a seven-hole stretch to finish with a 2 over round of 74 for a 36-hole total of 1 over par.
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That was three strokes below the cut line of four-over but a whopping nine shots behind leader Scottie Scheffler, who roared to a five-under 67 in the second round.
“I haven’t played a lot of tournaments of late,” Woods said with a wry smile after his round. “It’s just been a little bit rusty, but I’m starting to come around. I felt good about how I fought back today. I could have easily kicked myself out of the tournament today, but I kept myself in it.”
Woods said the weather conditions were not easy for him, or anyone. “It was blustery, it was windy, it was swirling all over the place. … There were so many things that were not going my way. It was partly the conditions and partly me.”
Then, as he so typically does at moments like these, Woods looked ahead to the weekend, and how he’s going to…
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