His Comeback Makes us Believe We Can Come Back
He’s back.
On Sunday, Tiger Woods won his fifth green jacket and 15th major championship in the 83rd edition of the Masters. Shooting 2-under par in the final-round on Sunday, Tiger finished at 13-under par and one shot ahead of Dustin Johnson, Xander Schauffele, and Brooks Koepka.
In his iconic Sunday red mock turtleneck, Woods won at historic Augusta for the first time since 2005. It also marked his first triumph in a major championship since the 2008 U.S. Open. Woods, 43-years-old, became the second-oldest winner of the Masters, after the then 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus in 1986.
Many of us first started paying attention to golf because of Tiger. We watched in awe when he first won the Masters, mourned with him as he lost his dad, got frustrated at him when he cheated on his wife, and accepted his apology when he hit rock bottom. He broke countless records and then crushed every heart. But he didn’t give up on the game and we didn’t give up on him.
He made us think we could crush a drive like him and we wanted to believe we could also come back like him. We needed him to come back.
His comeback makes us believe we can come back.
This win was the same, but different. We celebrated with him, watching him in his red shirt pump his right arm. But it was different. He didn’t just win a tournament. He reminded us what the human spirit is capable of. In the tournament of life, setbacks are inevitable but comebacks are possible.
Because he’s back, we know we can also come back.