Inside Augusta, the unceasing America is shut out, offering Tiger Woods a refuge from reality
- The world is shut out at Augusta, offering Tiger Woods a refuge from reality
- The Masters was first tournament he played after his marriage fell apart in 2009
- It is Tiger’s safe haven, and if he was ever to win a major again, it would be here
- By Sunday, the entire place willed him to win, it was a Tiger Woods force-field
Late one night during the US Masters, I drove from Alabama to Augusta along the I-20, the four-lane artery of America’s south that runs west to east for more than a thousand miles almost in a straight line from Texas to South Carolina.
It was just after 3am when I disconnected from its bloodstream of heavy trucks and neon invitations and turned off on to Washington Road, the main drag that runs past the entrance to Magnolia Lane.
The yellow of the Waffle House sign was still lit up and customers perched on stools at the counter. Cops in cars watched the empty road, the blue lights of their black-and-whites flashing in the night. Outside Hooters, John Daly’s RV was in darkness.
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