When Tiger Woods was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame last month — and you’ve got to ask what kept them — his daughter, Sam, revealed one of his deepest, darkest secrets.
He likes to attend Comic-Con events dressed as Batman.
It’s perfect. Not just because it affords a private man the opportunity to walk around in disguise, but also because it melds two of modern America’s great cultural heroes. Tiger, and Batman.
Tiger Woods was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame last month and his daughter, Sam, revealed one of his deepest, darkest secrets
On his return to the Masters, the 46-year-old channelled his alter ego as America’s hero
Both instantly recognisable by one name, millionaires with a playboy reputations, wedded to the light and dark of human nature, the best and worst of us. Imagine pulling Batman’s mask off and discovering he was the greatest legend of American sport all along. It would actually make sense.
So it wasn’t Tiger marching as determinedly, as ramrod straight as his body allowed, to the first tee at Augusta on Thursday. It wasn’t Tiger who birdied the 16th to deafening roars. It was his alter-ego, The Batman.
So much has been packed into his life, professional and personal, that it seems a work of fiction at times anyway. It couldn’t be written, drawn or filmed, the way Tiger has lived it. The triumphs, the falls, the comebacks, the fast cars, the danger. Yet beneath it all is still a man. Tiger, the Dark Knight, back again, another year, another sequel.
Woods is back again to pen another sequel after the triumphs, the falls and the comebacks
‘Everything’s impossible until somebody does it.’ Batman, The Dark Knight.
Rory McIlroy visited Woods at his home in January, and at that time there seemed no way he could play Augusta. He has a leg held together by plates, screws and metal rods.
In December he suffered a desperate reaction to a friendly father-son event in which he used a buggy to…
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