For the first time in more than a decade, Tiger Woods rolls into a year a defending major champion. For the first time in his career, Woods rolls into a year as not just a dominant figure in golf, but a dominant elder statesman. And for the first time in many years, Woods rolls into a year with not just hopes that he’ll win big tournaments, but expectations he will.
Woods began his 2020 season at Torrey Pines on Thursday in the Farmers Insurance Open, a locale where he won what seemed like it would be his final major: The dramatic one-legged 2008 U.