Tiger the Competitor – WSJ

Your humble correspondent isn’t a golfer, but he has to get up and cheer when a 45-year-old crash victim with multiple broken legs escapes amputation and threatens to make the cut at the Masters a year or so later.

Tiger Woods, now 46, got off to a rough start on Friday at Augusta National Golf Club as he grinds his way through the second round of the sport’s most famous tournament. But competing at all at this year’s event almost seems like a miracle and would be impossible without a raging competitive fire.