AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tiger Woods had just parred the first hole of his first day here at the Masters. Not bad. He’d really pipped the drive, too, a promising 289 uphill. If he could find his putter, who knows? Or so they murmured in the gallery.
Maybe more notably, he’d descended from the first tee box down a steep sweep of Georgia terrain and then up an even steeper one that constitutes the first fairway. It's a hike. He did it with only the slightest of hitches in his step.
Now he was standing on the second tee, having smacked his drive 307 into a trap.