A Decade After Crash, Tiger Woods Hunts for Another Masters

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 10th anniversary of the Thanksgiving night car crash that changed the course of golf history is months away. But as a smiling Tiger Woods exited the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse on Tuesday to cheers and applause, it was not too soon to consider his renaissance since the fall from grace that began when his then wife chased her philandering husband from their home and he drove his S.U.V. into a neighbor’s tree.

It also might be an occasion to observe how cultural status can be recouped with demonstrated, untiring perseverance. Woods kept showing up. There is power, too, in being an über-popular sports figure transformed into an underdog who…