PALM HARBOR, Fla. — The golfer who has transformed Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course into a pre-spring carnival was introduced without fanfare on Friday before his second round at the Valspar Championship. The 10th hole starter said, simply, “On the tee, from Jupiter, Florida, Tiger Woods.”
Nothing more succinctly captured the what-have-you-done-for-us-lately mentality of sports. Hitting first in Woods’s group was Henrik Stenson, whom the starter described as “the current Olympic silver medalist.” The next to play was Jordan Spieth, who was introduced as the 2015 Valspar champion and the current British Open champion.
And then came the unvarnished greeting for Woods, who has no current victories to herald.