[Applause] How many people did you run into today, Nick? I know it was early, but there were so many here when we arrived at Sunup who were saying this going to be a day of history. Yeah, idealing it.
You felt it. I did. I I did mention it to a few people.
I said exactly. I've been describing like a marathon. Just let everybody do it.
That's how I would run a marathon if I could get that far. hang behind the leaders and as I was trying to describe everybody's going to get wound up trying to win the masters for many of them for their first time. He just waited for those around him.
What happened at 12 is just astonishing to see the last two groups go through with four double bogeies. Four in the in the water. Now he's backing off driver here.
Not going to go with the big stick. It means he can just pound as hard as he likes. Straight at the bunkers.
Never going to reach them. No. He'll kick to the right though.
And it's back the [Applause] ways as we watch Tiger walking up and he'd be concerned if he's got far enough up to have a clear view. I'm just trying to look for the Marshall to head up there to see where his ball [Applause] is. [Applause] His mom is there.
Kita, son Charlie in the foreground, daughter Sam in the back, his girlfriend Erica. This has been one of the biggest goals for Tiger in this remarkable comeback, and that was for his children to experience this. Now, Tiger's got a little bit of a limb issue, some branches on his direct line.
Was one of those nice knockdown slicing fades. You can cut it up, cut it up against the wind. Let Jerry get in the wind direction.
[Applause] Wow. Okay. Kind of overshot that one again.
Just needs to make five to close it out for Green Jack at number five, which would put him one behind Jack Nicholas and one ahead of Arnold Palmer. [Applause] Heat. Heat.
[Applause] Think of all the youngsters who were inspired by his greatness. a generation that in many cases we're seeing compete on the worldwide stage today and now introducing to a new wave of youngsters what it's like to see Tiger Woods in this position at a [Music] major hears the ringing in his ears, knows the family awaits, but he also knows there's still work to finish here, Nick. He never gets off track when it comes to that.
Well, absolutely. You still got to hit a nice, clean, crisp chip shot. Got plenty of room to work with, but uh wouldn't want to do anything silly.
play for the slope for safety. I can't believe I've never seen Tiger play for safety. How about that?
Two punts. Two punts for the title. [Applause] Nick, I think of Hoy Lake in 2006 when he won that major title when he won the Open, his first major after passing of his father Earl and how emotional that was.
I think we're going to see something similar to that today. Put it in context here. This is going to be one of the great comebacks.
the completion of one of the great comebacks in any sport all time. Well, it's going to be I said moons ago if he can win his 15th that will be his greatest achievement. And after what he's been through, I think I'm pretty close to that.
But now you have to think after this performance, why stop there? Well, if the back's healthy, we'll start the whole the whole talks again. I mean, number one is health.
Mhm. It's been amazing that he's managed to he's worked extremely hard as he said. I mean, it's not just this morning getting up at 3:45 to prepare.
It's probably every day he wants to play golf. He has to put that kind of preparation in. Yeah.
When you talk about his back, I mean the I just I just think that you know the tiger in the wild is is on the endangered list and go many thought the tiger was on that list too, didn't we? And but not anymore. Well, he's going to go next.
It appears they're not going to finish out first. He's such a great reader. The greens.
I'm sure he's just going to put this touch on the right. Perfect weight. seen him make this putt many times before.
Back 2001, the completion of the Tiger Slam. Same pot. Let him history.
Okay, that went that went over the edge. What happened? [Applause] After watching Brooks kept his putt turn, I thought that was [Music] it.
how the putt about the same size as the one he finished off in 97 more than a half a lifetime ago when he was 21 and he rewrote the record book at Augusta National. That was 22 years ago yesterday. The millions around the world had waited for waited for years.
Many doubted we'd ever see it, but here it is. The return to glory. Heat up here.
Heat up here. [Applause] Oh, heat, heat. [Applause] Heat.
Heat. [Applause] Heat up here. Heat up here.
[Applause] I never thought we'd see anything that could rival the hug with his father in 1997, but we just did. That would be the greatest scene in golf forever. Jim Nance and that hug with his children.
If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, if you're a parent, you're not human. Now the the whole euphoria of everything, the patrons, his emotion, the chanting. We will never see anything as exhilarating as that.
Fantastic. Congratulations, Tiger. Unbelievable.
[Applause] Zack Johnson, Ricky Fowler, Justin Thomas, Bubba [Applause] Sand takes his cap [Applause] off pure greatness. You saw it come back again.
