NASSAU, the Bahamas — Twenty-three minutes into Tiger Woods’s news conference on Tuesday, the skies opened, and rain lashed the roof of the temporary tent where Woods was taking questions, drowning out every fifth or sixth word of his responses. It did not matter. Woods’s body language told the story of how far he has come since last year’s Hero World Challenge.
At the 2015 event, a glum Woods sat slumped in his seat and said that there really was nothing he could look forward to, and that any further success in golf “beyond this will be gravy.