osjouno16 MENU CGOLPLIVE Apt hes Quales stare Meters review Hovrto Win Agusta National Without Tiger - Woods, who's egal Stee: The Masters Coverage, ‘Tiger Woods: What Happened? The Most Vering Question in Sports 1 Golf.com simply because he was Tiger Woods. Thare was litle room for nurturing {tiendships. Says Gore, "At tournaments he would look at you and burn a hole right through you, tke you didnt even exist, He did that to me al the time, and !'ve know him probably longer than anybody on Tour." After the scandal Gore could sense that Woods felt a strong need for connection: "He realized there's ‘more going on in this world than birdies and bogeys. He started asking about my wife, asking about my kids, It was nice to see him be, you know, normal." ‘This more human version of Woods was on display in the most surpssing of settings: the crucible ofthe final round of tne 2010 U.S. Open, at Pebble Beach, That national championship was always going to be a referendum on Woods's game; he was returning to the site of his most dominant victory, @ 15-shot laugher at the Open a decade earlier. For the first 45 holes he looked overmatched by the ‘moment, but then Woods caught fir an the back nine on Saturday. He rode a series of spectacular shats to @ 65 that propelled him to third place Fr the final round Woods was paired with Gregory Havret, a Frenchman who was playing in only his fourth major. He has vivid memories ofthe round. “Tiger ide play all that well” Havret says, "but we chatted all the way around the course. On hole rumber 9 i totally surprised me when Tiger sald that he knew | had a child, and he asked me how my daughter, Jeanne, was gotting on. He ‘asked a fow things about what it was like growing up in France. Then on the 16th hole t was quite funny ~ he said he had read in the newspapers that there was strike in France, and he asked me to explain who was striking and why." MASTERS: Visit GOLF.com's Masters Tournament Hub Havret bettered Woods by three strokes that day. For him to say his companion didnt play well isthe epitome of Continental good manners: Ti putted the 1st hole, hit a snap hook into @ tre off the 3rd tee and knocked it nto the ‘ocean on number 8. He bogeyed six of the frst 12 holes to blow himself out ofthe tournament; afterward ha moaned about the condition of the greens and blamed three bogeys on Williams's club selections. Woods's mistakes in the final round of the Masters, two months earlier, wore easily rationalized, bul the implosion at Pebble signaled that something had fundamentally changed, In just 10 months Woods had been ¥.E. Yang’, blown a crucial 72nd hole put at the Barclays, sutfered the worst public disgrace of the Internet age, yipped a gimme in crunch lime at the Mastors and fallen apart atthe U.S. Open. There isthe pervasive belief that In the wake of the scandal Woods's peers were: loss intimidated, hastening his demise. Harrington be ‘more damaging: “He had an invincible air, and then suddenly he had frites. But Its not what wo thought about the faites that mattered, itis what he thought. Up to that point he was the most self-confident person I'd ever come across. Invincible, in a sense. | might have kept believing that except it became quite clear that Tiger himself no longer did 2 fos an inward gaze was bp: gol. com/tourand-newslwha-happenedsipr-woodsi-emains-nostvexing-gueton-spors pape=utm,_source=pocketiuin_mediun=emailtn_eampaigy 2osjouno16 ‘Tiger Woods: What Happened? The Most Vering Question in Sports 1 Golf.com bp: gol. com/tourand-newlwha-happened-ipr-woodsit-emains-nostvexng-guetion-spors pap metiumemalutn campaig) 22