The now two-time Masters winner isn’t as big a deal as the big cat once was. But he conveys the same sense of inevitability.
At around 4:30 on Sunday afternoon, four players were tied atop the leaderboard at the Masters, each of them six strokes under par for the week. Then, over the next half-hour or so, things started going dreadfully wrong for most of them.hole into the water. It’s a long par 4, a 520-yard bender from right to left, and Aberg got a little too proud with his approach, spilling it into the only body of water in golf with a name people remember: Rae’s Creek.
Scottie Scheffler’s version of a mistake was different. Seeing the field implode around him, the world’s No. 1 player understood his assignment. Scheffler had a two-shot lead when he stood over the same second shot on the 11Scheffler realized that anything other than a ball in the water was fine, so he bailed out: He sent his approach shot to a vast expanse right of the 11and led by three with six holes to play, and that was that.
For the other 51 weeks, the sport just needs to be as interesting as possible. Right now it can be only so compelling, given the dilution of talent across two promotions and the unavoidable fact that Woods is no longer a contender. Smart people in golf realized a long time ago that wishing for another Tiger was a waste of time. Nobody will ever be as good, or as cool, as he was in the 2000s.
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