LOS ANGELES – For PGA Tour brass there is no better time or place for Tiger Woods to set the all-time Tour wins record than right here, right now, at Riviera. We can see it now, this intersection of legends past and present: Tiger passes Snead at Hogan’s Alley.
To turn fantasy into reality, however, Woods will have to conquer what has proven to be the most vexing challenge of his career.
Woods has a love-hate relationship with the old L.A. Open, the Tour stop that was closest to his childhood home in Cypress, California, that was the site of his first start, in 1992, as a 16-year-old, and that now is run by his group, TGR Ventures.