AUGUSTA — Tiger Woods has played in 22 Masters, which means he has seen almost everything Augusta National Golf Club has to offer. Still, when he entered the interview room for his traditional pretournament press conference Tuesday, he paused.
“Wow,” he said. “This is different.”
Woods’s media availabilities tend to draw standing-room attendance. But with social-distancing measures restricting capacity, a room that usually holds some 150 people instead contained 27. Woods has probably played to bigger crowds in private dining rooms.
Nineteen months ago, a long par-5 from where he sat and smiled Tuesday, Woods won his 15th major championship.