AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Tiger Woods and his rebuilt leg held up for another day at the Masters, overcoming a disastrous front nine to make the cut and enter the weekend nine shots off the lead. To watch him Friday, in pain yet still stoic, was to watch someone battle ... the course, the wind, himself. Across the country in California, a retired golf pro recognized this show of grit and thought of his old friend Earl Woods.
"He'd be so proud," Joe Grohman said on Friday. "For the physical ailments Tiger has come through, and all the other nonsense, Earl would be out of his mind right now.