Tiger Woods, new record: in the final laps of the Augusta Masters for the twenty-third time

AUGUSTA (GEORGIA) — The old champion can no longer win, reduced as he is by various surgeries and road accidents, but he still manages to add a few pages to his legend. Returning to the field at 8 on Saturday (14 Italian time) to complete the second round interrupted on Friday due to rain and collapse of trees on the 17th hole, Tiger Woods equaled another historic record: 23 times he passed the cut, i.e. he qualified among the best 50 and tied, admitted to play the final two rounds here at theAugusta Masters. He managed it with difficulty, in the cold and in the rain, grabbing the last useful score (3 strokes over par) but he did it; to be among the elected he needed others to do something wrong (like his young, great friend Justin Thomas, eliminated) but in the end he made it and, after a three-hour break, he will return to the field for the third round, subjecting his right leg to new stress, with the aggravating circumstance of the cold and damp which do not help him . Passed 23 consecutive cuts: only as an amateur, in 1996, was he eliminated. As a professional, never again: starting from ’97 when he won, thwarting our hopes Constantine Roccawho finished fifth.

Tiger Woods as Player and Couples

South African only Gary Playernow 87 years old, and the American Fred Couples they played 23 Masters all the way. And the phenomenal Couples (of Italian origin, a very close friend of Tiger) comfortably passing the cut (+1, 39th place) at the beautiful age of 63, has become the oldest player in history to do so. Fior of champions who could easily be his children, they didn’t make it: da McIlroy (Most Anticipated) to Justin Thomas, from DeChambeau to Garcia. And, among them, ours Molinariout for one shot.