Tiger Wins 5th Masters

What a beautiful round of golf by Tiger Woods at Augusta National on Sunday afternoon as the former king of golf won his first major since the 2008 U.S. Open.

There he stood on the 15th fairway around 225 yards away from the pin getting ready to hit his second shot on the very birdie-able Par 5 and you knew this was going to be a big swing for Tiger Woods with four holes left and the leaderboard logjammed with himself and four of the game’s more notable current stars.

The red shirt. The black slacks.. and the iconic black ball cap with the Nike swoosh on it were all there in the moment. I’m guessing this new version of Tiger hit a six-iron, but I’m not certain. The ball rose, drew slightly towards the middle of the green and fell around twenty feet to the right of the pin for what indeed did turn out to be a two putt birdie for Tiger and the eventual margin of victory over Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson.

Tiger won his 5th Masters and 15th overall major with the dramatic win on Sunday which galvanized not only the world of golf, but the world of humanity as one minus Jim Traber felt a lump in their throats as Tiger hugged his mother, his son, his daughter, and his girlfriend just off of the 18th green.

It was human redemption in its rawest form out there for all to see and take in as if their own lives had been affected by Tiger’s fall from grace a decade ago.

Jack Nicklaus, who was somewhere off bone fishing, sent Tiger a warm note of congratulations as the surrogate father of golf who Tiger has been chasing ever since his college days at Stanford.

As a fan of golf it was special. It was a day you’ll remember and be talking about this coming Easter week-end with your family.

Tiger did the unthinkable. He fell from grace as America’s most adorned athlete and was scorned by the moral guardians in the aftermath. He hit rock bottom, but he never gave up on his game, but more importantly…he never quit on his children.

Patrick Reed as last year’s Master’s champ presented Tiger with his fifth green jacket inside iconic Butler Cabin. It was touching because if you follow golf you know Patrick Reed as a kid was a fan of Tiger and had his own problems before he won the Masters last spring.

It should remind us we all make mistakes, but in the end it’s how we pull ourselves back up which separates our fates at the end of the day.

Good for Tiger Woods.