He won’t shoot the lowest score.
And he won’t slide the green jacket on outside Butler Cabin.
But make no mistake, golf fans. Tiger Woods has won the Masters.
Already.
Oh sure, it may be someone else basking in the glow of a Jim Nantz interview come Sunday evening at Augusta National, but this tournament was over just past 11 a.m. Thursday when the greatest talent in the game’s history stepped to the first tee and ripped a drive a few steps short of a fairway bunker.
The roar that erupted minutes later when he drained a 12-footer to save par was a fitting mic drop.