“I got a second chance on life, I am a walking miracle”
Rebuilding the body
It was at the Champions’ Dinner in the Augusta National clubhouse last year when Tiger Woods delivered the bombshell to Jack Nicklaus: “That’s it, I’m done.” He was not talking about his starter.
Sir Nick Faldo, with his three green jackets, was in the room. Recalling the sad, hunchbacked figure who had trouble sitting down throughout the meal in honour of Danny Willett, the 2016 champion, Faldo also suspected that this had a discernible feel of the last supper.
“Tiger had been through three back surgeries at the time, was obviously still in agony whenever we’d seen him of late and was saying ‘this is it’,” Faldo recalled...