2011 Masters: What Tiger Woods and Charl Schwartzel Told Us About Ourselves

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Published: April 12, 2011

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The 2011 Masters should have been everything we ever wanted in a golf tournament: A young superstar in the making dramatically fell apart after a dominating weekend, an amazing finish that brought us a new champion out of nowhere, all while eight different players held a share of the lead.

Let me say that again: eight different players held a share of the lead. That's pretty much as good as it gets in golf. That's the golf equivalent of a NHL Game 7 that had eight different lead changes—in the third period alone.

But for some reason, I, and many other golf fans, went to bed Sunday night feeling disappointed. 

Of all the amazing things that happened at Augusta on Sunday, there was truly only one thing that actually captivated the audience, and that thing was Tiger Woods.

Even as we marveled at Rory McIllroy's seemingly transcendent first 54 holes, we secretly scanned down the leaderboard to find Tiger.

Even as Woods seemed to shoot himself out of contention with a 74 on Saturday, we kept him in the back of our minds. And when he caught fire on Sunday afternoon, we just couldn't hold it in anymore.

The crowds at Augusta burst out with the pent up energy of two winless years. People watching all across the country began posting statuses, tweeting, texting and calling their friends and family with exclamations of, "He's back, baby!"

I tweeted it. I told my sister. I talked about it at work. I was as excited as anybody.

And as we watched him stumble to an even par on the back nine and walk into the clubhouse somewhat dejected and anything but victorious, we tried to hide our disappointment.

We feigned interest in Adam Scott and Jason Day's potential playoff, and we pretended to be excited when Charl Schwartzel made his miraculous run to win it all.

But inside, we were all disappointed that we were so close to seeing what we really wanted: history. Sure, some pe...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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