Forecast Dims For Tiger Woods
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By DERON SNYDER
With his favorite tournament just three weeks away, Tiger Woods was playing some of his best golf in recent memory. He finished second in the Honda Classic last week, with a closing 62 that represented the best final round of his career. The second-place showing marked his best finish in a PGA Tour event in 30 months.
If Woods wasn’t all the way back from that fateful Thanksgiving night in 2009 — when an early-morning accident and revelations of adultery blew up his marriage and life as he knew it — he was getting pretty close.
But Woods’ troublesome left leg caused him to withdraw Sunday from the Cadillac Championship. That brings into question not only his prospects for the Masters but also his long-term goal of eclipsing Jack Nicklaus’ record 18 wins in the major tournaments.
“I felt tightness in my left Achilles warming up this morning, and it continued to get progressively worse,” Woods said in a statement. “After hitting my tee shot at 12, I decided it was necessary to withdraw. In the past I may have tried to continue to play, but this time I decided to do what I thought was necessary.”
