'Aching' Tiger Woods thinks he can get one more green jacket
Published in Golf
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods isn’t an old man in the traditional sense. Outside the ropes of professional golf, the 48-year Californian looks like a healthy, vibrant middle-aged man, especially with a hat on.
Inside the yellow ropes of Augusta National Golf Club, where he will compete against 88 other golfers this week, Woods is a relative octogenarian.
At least, he talks that way.
Asked what shot on the 7,555-yard course he’ll play this week is the most difficult considering his various ailments, Woods deadpanned: “Anything not on the tee box.”
In a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters in a filled-to-capacity interview auditorium Tuesday, Woods described his current physical condition the following ways:
“I hurt every day.”
“I ache every day”
“Things just flare up.”
As to what parts, Woods shares: “The back, the knee, other parts of the body.”
But not, he emphasizes, the ankle.
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