Virginia Golfer January / February 2015 | Page 38

(continued from page 31) VSGA Member Masters Water-Logged Hole at Sawgrass by SCOTT MICHAUX “(Tiger) needs a win—I don’t care if it is the Hershey Bar Open—to get his confidence level up.” — NBC GOLF ANALYST JOHNNY MILLER expects to play “a pretty full schedule” in 2015. At press time for this edition of Virginia Golfer, Woods announced he’d start the PGA Tour season by playing in Phoenix for the first time since 2001 before going to Torrey Pines. There, he’d entered the event having won eight times, including the last of his 14 majors at the 2008 U.S. Open. His quest to catch Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors looks more doubtful with each passing year given the toll it has taken on his body. “Father Time is undefeated,” Woods said. “We all eventually are losing some of the things we are able to do when we were younger. As an athlete, yeah, you do notice these things. We all have to make adaptations as athletes, and we have to make adjustments. And I’m no different.” When the Masters arrives in April, it will be Rory McIlroy taking center stage trying to comp ]H\