Given a career resume that makes him a mandatory part of chats about the game’s all-time greats, even suggesting such a label seems blasphemous.
After all, he has 79 tour victories and 14 major championships. The Associated Press deemed him the “Athlete of the Decade” for the first 10 years of the millennium.
He’ll be the player today’s 40-somethings tell their grandkids they saw in his prime.
But as anyone who got Monday’s bulletin from TigerWoods.com can attest, those days feel long gone.
A 199-word missive bearing the Stanford alum’s own byline broke the news that a long-awaited return to competition after 14 months will be delayed for what seems like the millionth time.