Tiger Woods warned this week that, at least for him, the challenge of playing the Masters Tournament would not necessarily be driving, chipping and putting.
It would be walking.
“This is normally not an easy walk to begin with,” Woods, 46, said on Tuesday. “Now given the conditions that my leg is in, it gets even more difficult.”
Over the first few holes on Thursday, Woods walked with a limp and took shorter strides than usual. He also struggled to squat when eyeballing a putt.
Few elements of Augusta National Golf Club are more surprising to huffing-and-puffing first-time visitors than the topography, which is only so apparent from television broadcasts and newspaper photographs.