Tiger Woods and Verne Lundquist will at all times share a connection at Augusta Nationwide.
It was solely acceptable that they shared a second at Lundquist’s last Masters.
On the sixteenth gap, the place Woods made a memorable chip-in on the 2005 Masters on the best way to his fourth of 5 inexperienced jackets, the golfer stopped to shake Lundquist’s hand and trade just a few phrases after tapping in for par.
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The 83-year-old Lundquist is retiring after calling the Masters for CBS for the fortieth time.
His choice to step away has rekindled recollections of his epic name of Woods’ chip-in almost twenty years in the past, when Lundquist bellowed, “In your life have you ever seen something like that?!”
Early in Sunday’s broadcast, CBS’ Jim Nantz mentioned, “We shall be celebrating you so long as there’s a Masters match. … You’ll at all times be part of it. You may have everlasting residence right here with that spectacular resume of calls and moments. … We will miss you.”
Lundquist replied, “I thanks Jim, and due to all of you.” Preventing again tears, he mentioned, “I will get via today with none emotion. Possibly.”
Woods completed the Masters on Sunday with a 16-over 304, his highest 72-hole rating in a profession that spans three many years.
Woods’ earlier excessive was 302 on the Memorial in 2015 following a career-worst 85 within the third spherical. He has failed to interrupt 300 just one different time on the Masters: two years in the past, when he shot 78-78 on the weekend and completed at 301.
All of that hardly mattered to the group.
The 48-year-old Woods, who continues to be coping with the results of quite a few surgical procedures which have impacted his physique and restricted his taking part in time on the PGA Tour, acquired an enormous roar from the group as he pitched near the outlet on No. 18 and made par.
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.
