Tiger Woods, shown during a weather-interrupted practice round Tuesday morning, said, "As of right now, I feel like I am going to play" the Masters. Photo: Andrew Redington, Getty Images
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA | As an addendum to the extraordinary list of achievements in Tiger Woods’ remarkable career, there could be another list, a literal compilation of how his personal pieces have been put back together, Humpty Dumpty-like.
Pieces.
Knees. Legs. Backs.
Now this piece, teeing it up in the Masters on Thursday, 14 months after being pulled from the mangled wreckage of his SUV off the side of a southern California road, the pieces of his ravaged right leg put back together by surgeons, therapists and a braveheart will.
“As of right now, I feel like I am going to play,” Woods said late Tuesday morning, sitting in the Augusta National interview room where every seat was filled, awaiting those words.
Woods is scheduled to be on Augusta National's first tee at 10:34 a.m. Thursday. Photo: Andrew Redington, Getty Images
Woods’ ...
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