Woods hadn’t played competitively in two months because of surgery in August to repair minor cartilage damage in his left knee. Snead was right to sound a note of caution about the unseen forces that could trip up Woods. After Woods won the Masters in April for his 15th major title, the expectation was that the result would catapult him to great heights. Instead, he made only six starts last season after the Masters and his best finish after Augusta was a tie for ninth. “When he wins the Masters, you think he’s going to win another five majors straightaway,” Adam Scott, the former world No.

Source: New York Times October 28, 2019 00:33 UTC