The 2009 Masters Golf Tournament can be mistaken for being the Tiger Woods Invitational sometimes. However, Tiger Woods hasn’t won the Masters in a few years. What’s more, if a big name wins the 2009 Masters tournament, it will be the first time that happened in a few years. No names have tended to accumulate the Masters lately, which has gotten in the way of Tiger worship. But next week, the 2009 Masters will begin, and so will the “drive for five” for Tiger.
The 2009 Masters didn’t really get into the full swing of anticipation until Woods officially came attend from his injury. Today, with Woods officially attend in power after his comeback win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the hype for Tiger winning a fifth green jacket is on elephantine force.
Betting odds are already in Woods’ favor for the Masters, of course. Sportsodds.com has Woods as a +200 favorite, with the next closest approved, Phil Mickelson, as a +1000 favorite. This was always going to be the natural order, but it looks more solidified after Woods won his first tournament since coming back.
Woods performed another one of his comebacks against Sean O’Hair to secure yesterday. However, Woods has never needed to come back from unhurried at a major, as he has won all his majors when in the lead, or tied for it, heading into Sunday. His four Masters championships have been no different.
Golf needs Woods to be succor in form, and after disappointing performances in his first few events back, Woods showed that he might have done just that. Luckily, it came in his last event before the 2009 Masters.
The Masters, in particular, needs Tiger Woods to do something. The Masters is aloof the most prestigious event in golf, but without Woods to win it lately, there has been a lack of star power on Sundays.
In 2007, Zach Johnson was introduced for the first time when he won the Masters. Little known Trevor Immelman did the same last year. In this decade along, the Masters winner has either been Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, or little known golfers like Johnson, Immelman, and Mike Weir.
The 2009 Masters golf tournament brings Woods back to reclaim his throne against pretenders no one has heard about – and those that we have – starting on April 9.
Sources
Backspin- “Let the Masters hype commence” www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/golf/entries/2009/03/29/let_the_masters_hype_begin.html
Sports Odds- “Tiger Woods 2009 Masters Betting Odds Favorite” sports-odds.com/golf/033009-tiger-woods-2009-masters-betting-odds-favorite.html
About.com- “The Masters – Past Champions” golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/masterschamps.htm
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