Time for Tiger to bare teeth
After five months out of the game, the question is this: will the disgraced world number one choke as the orchestra strikes up in the greatest amphitheatre that golf has to offer and hit a series of bum notes or will the virtuoso’s chest swell with pride and blow away the chorus?
If the bookmakers, those canny judges of form, know anything, it’s that you can never write off the man once dubbed the Chosen One. Yet those who watch the odds closely will have noticed Woods’ chances of donning a fifth green jacket have lengthened considerably since he exposed his rusty golf game to the paying public on Monday morning.