The Masters goes on without Tiger Woods. No jokeTiger Woods can’t get back to golf soon enough. Anything to keep him off social media.
First came words rarely heard from Woods — “Love is in the air” — in his social media post last week confirming he was in a relationship with the former daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, accompanied by a two photos, one of them snuggling on a hammock.More confounding, of course, was posting the photos along with a plea for privacy. But that was right out of his playbook from a decade ago when he was dating skiing great Lindsey Vonn.
Provide proof (photos) to devalue and discourage the paparazzi.Tuesday brought something new from Woods — an April Fools’ Day joke.
“I can’t believe I am saying this,” Woods wrote on X, another phrase he rarely uses, “but a few weeks after rupturing my left Achilles, the sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber plus the explosive lifts my doctors and trainers have me ready to play the Masters next week! Can’t wait! See y’all on the course.” He waited six minutes before clarifying that yes, that was a joke.“My Achilles is still a mess,” he wrote.
That so many people fell for it is largely an example of social media destroying brain cells and partly because so many still hold out hope for his return.
Bernhard Langer had a tear in his Achilles tendon and remarkably made it back to the PGA Tour Champions in three months, although he used a cart.
Woods said this was a rupture, meaning 2025 will be another lost year in the majors, the only tournaments he still plays.
Besides, what is anyone hoping to see?Between the hardware holding his right leg and ankle together, a sixth surgery on his lower back, a ruptured Achilles tendon and a birth certificate that shows him turning 50 at the end of the year, the future is as cloudy as the forecast for Augusta National next week.And it’s been that way for some time.
