Tiger Woods drops new retirement hint at the Masters as golf icon ‘lucky’ just to have leg
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Woods was particularly reserved when he spoke to the assembled media on Tuesday. Rather than giving his traditional pre-tournament prediction, the American instead affirmed that teeing up “a small victory in itself” following his single-car rollover crash in February 2021 and he admitted he is ‘lucky’ to still have a leg.
The 47-year-old has had an extremely inactive 2022-2023 season playing in only one major tournament, the Genesis Invitational, in which he placed T45. When asked if this could be his last Masters, he said: “Yes. Last year I didn’t know if I was going to play again at that time. I didn’t win the tournament, but for me to be able to come back and play was a small victory in itself.
“I still would have liked to have gotten the W, but I didn’t, but I think I got my own smaller version of that, to be able to come back and just be able to play. I don’t know how many more I have in me. So just to be able to appreciate the time that I have here and cherish the memories.”
“I’ve been able to recreate a lot of the chip shots at home in my backyard,” he added. “I’ve gone through so many different scenarios in my head.
“You know I don’t sleep very well, so going through it and rummaging through the data bank and how to hit shots from each and every place and rehearsing it; that’s the only way that I can compete here. And hopefully, it will help me this week.”