While watching Tiger Woods collapse to a closing 75 in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on Sunday, the words of three very different golfers came to mind. And the sight of him three-putting the 72nd green in front of his fiercest rival, Phil Mickelson, emphasised the extent to which his strength of will has been crushed by events over the last 27 months.
In the wake of Woods’s victory in the Chevron Challenge before Christmas, rivals made diplomatic noises about how much they’d lo…
By Dermot Gilleece
