As the years have ticked by, golf fans have been forced to face the sad fact that Tiger Woods may never be the same again. So terminal has been his decline, that ESPN commissioned Wright Thompson to pen a kind of valedictory lament for Tiger's career. Woods is now ranked 524th in the world, yet the man continues to compel the world, and he held a press conference this afternoon at Congressional Golf Club this afternoon to discuss his return to golf.
Woods has not played a tournament since last August, as he continues to recover from a back injury. The severity of this injury has caused alarm among fans, with Woods' agent forced to dismiss a claim from golf writer Robert Lusetich that he was on the verge of retirement. Lusetich claimed that Wood's back injury had become so debilitating that he was unable to sit in a car without reclining the seat. ,
Contrary to Lusetich's doomsday prediction, Woods is on the comeback trail, and has signed up to play at the US Open in the event he feels back to form. At the press conference, Woods says he feels ready to come back: "I'm not fertilizer ... I'm excited to return and win tournaments again", although admitted he does not know if that will be next week or next year. Judging by what happened next, we are betting on the latter.
Woods took a couple of exhibition shots in front of the assembled cameras. It went disastrously awry: finding the water thrice in a row. Watch below:
Fox Sports have posited the possibility that Woods was missing on purpose as a kind of strange trick of self-deprecation. We hope they're right.
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