AUGUSTA, Ga. — At Augusta National Golf Club, where phones are forbidden and communication with the outside world is limited, the manually operated scoreboards at each green are the only way patrons learn of the approaching group’s scores relative to par.
At about 3:30 p.m. Friday, in the midst of a wind-blown second round of the Masters, the operator of the scoreboard at the 18th green posted a new name and score for the man waltzing up the fairway.
“WOODS,” it read, a single adjacent figure in green: 1.
Hundreds surrounding the green bellowed with delight, an applause filtered through the crowd, and one man gleefully announced to the people, “Tiger is making the cut!