Can a chastened Woods find his redemption by hitting new heights?
Rumours are beginning to build around the possibility that the exile of Tiger Woods may be drawing to a close. Some speculation says he will be playing before the end of the month. It is a necessary move if he is to return in some kind of touch and re-orientation in time for a reappearance at the US Masters in April where he made his first, indelible statement of greatness as a 21- year-old 13 years ago. No doubt he will run some kind of gauntlet but whatever you think of Woods’ conduct there is a deep fascination in the prospect of his return. He never claimed for himself, even if his sponsors did, the status of a paragon of good behaviour but he did something that has been missed by golf hugely in his absence. He gave us the possibility of supreme sporting achievement, as his friend Roger Federer has continued to do from the apparent deep well of his personal contentment – and apparently unbreakable decorum. The huge question now is whether Woods can return to the astonishing single-
