Jim McCabe: Father Time winning but golf will survive after Tiger Woods

Somewhere along the rocky rode he has travelled in recent years — maybe after back surgery pushed him to the sidelines, or maybe when his ‘glutes’ didn’t activate in San Diego; it’s so hard to keep track of his ailments, comebacks, and soap opera episodes — Tiger Woods let it be known that “Father Time was undefeated”.

It probably ranks as one of the few times that you didn’t have to question him or peer through a shroud of mystery to figure out what he meant. It was definitive stuff when he said those words, because, indeed, not even the incomparable Woods has been able to stop time from marching on.

Duly noted is the fact that hours after Woods left Whistling Straits on Saturday afternoon, a victim of the cut for a third straight time in a major championship, one of the most electric rounds in recent major championship history broke out.