Yahoo Sports senior writer Jay Busbee reacts to the golfer’s latest injury – a torn Achilles that will keep him out for the entire 2025 season – and why the 15-time major champion will always have the drive to return to the golf course.
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Once again, Tiger Woods is losing an entire major season to injury.
Once again, we ask, is this the end of the line for the greatest golfer ever to wear red and black on Sundays?
And once again we say no, there is no way that Tiger Woods is going out like this.
Now granted, it does not look good.
Woods announced right before the players started that he’d ruptured his Achilles tendon and will in all likelihood miss all four of the 2025 majors.
This only adds to the terrible run of majors luck that Woods has had in the last few years outside of Augusta.
He hasn’t even finished out the weekend at any major since the 2020 season.
It is a strong, sharp contrast for the Early part of Woods’s career where he used to just devastate the field by 5, 1015 strokes at these majors.
Now he can’t even finish them out.
What he can do, however, is come back again and again from injury.
Why does he come back?
Well, that’s the question there.
He has an indownable will.
He has a need to prove himself.
He has a need to prove his doubters wrong, and he has a need to play with his son.
He’s played with his son Charlie at the PNC tournament on multiple occasions.
He’s Indicated that surgery was scheduled so that he could be ready to play with Charlie last season.
Whatever the reason, Woods is a fighter and Woods will always be back.
Now there’s almost no chance that he’s going to catch Jack Nicklaus’ 18 majors and almost no chance that he’ll win another tournament to break a tie atop the leaderboard with Sam Snead with 82 PGA Tour wins.
But that doesn’t really even matter at this point.
What matters is that Woods gets back up off the deck again and again.
He keeps on fighting.
And that’s what makes him even more relatable now than he was back in his dominant days.
So, we have most certainly not seen the last of Tiger Woods, but it’s definitely gonna be sad not to see him this year.
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