At 46, 26 after his debut as a professional golfer, Tiger Woods has bottomed out. This week he has sunk to 1,206th place in the PGA, the worst and lowest of his sporting life in the world ranking. The former number one thus comes to ratify those words that he spoke after his traffic accident in 2021 (“nothing will ever be the same,” he said). Indeed, nothing is the same for the golfer who one day revolutionized a sport with his talent.
The accident he suffered in 2021, with multiple open fractures in his right leg and which was threatened with amputation, has condemned Tiger Woods to an unsuspected ostracism. The winner of 15 major tournaments, second only to Jack Nicklaus’s 18 which are a golf record, has fallen seven positions further from his last worst classification, which came in 2017 after undergoing back surgery.
Now Woods has dropped 600 spots from the PGA ranking he held before his car accident. The times in which the American occupied the leadership of the world ranking for 683 weeks are far behind. Then came the back operation and the car and the sinking.
Woods, who shares the all-time record of 82 PGA wins with Sam Snead, returned to competition last April at the Augusta Masters after a 14-month forced retirement. He did not do anything remarkable in the most emblematic tournament in the world, nor in the other two contests in which he competed, Southern Hills and the British Open in Saint Andrews, where he did not make the cut.
Speculation suggests that the player could reappear on December 1 in the Bahamas, invited to the Hero World Challenge.
