{"id":227674,"date":"2019-04-15T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/jack-nicklaus-never-doubted-woods-would-win-again\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:53:54","slug":"jack-nicklaus-never-doubted-woods-would-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/jack-nicklaus-never-doubted-woods-would-win-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I never doubted Woods would win again \u2013 Jack Nicklaus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/masters_woods15.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Woods has won five Masters titles\" class=\"wp-image-129600\"\/><figcaption>Tiger Woods has won five Masters titles (Matt Slocum\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen-time major winner Jack Nicklaus said Tiger Woods had him \u201cshaking in his boots\u201d after a remarkable fifth Masters title saw him resume his pursuit of the all-time majors record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woods\u2019 15th major title, secured by one shot at Augusta, came 11 years after his last, a period during which he has undergone multiple back surgeries and faced personal problems which had threatened to end his career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Woods had himself suggested he would never again contend for a major, but Nicklaus said he always expected Woods to come back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A big \u201cwell done\u201d from me to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TigerWoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TigerWoods<\/a>! I am so happy for him and for the game of golf. This is just fantastic!!! ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheMasters<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jack Nicklaus (@jacknicklaus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacknicklaus\/status\/1117494664456699905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">14 April 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI felt for a long time he was going to win again,\u201d Nicklaus told The Golf Channel. \u201cAnd, you know, the next two majors are at Bethpage, where he\u2019s won (2002 US Open), and Pebble Beach, where he\u2019s won (2000 US Open). So, you know, he\u2019s got me shaking in my boots, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Nicklaus had been fishing in the Bahamas but caught the end of Woods\u2019 round and said he was in no doubt he would win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t any question in mind, after seeing (Francesco) Molinari hit the ball in the water at 12, and Tiger put it on the green,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Tournament\u2019s over\u2019. It doesn\u2019t make any difference what anyone else is going to do. Somebody is going to make enough mistakes and Tiger won\u2019t make any, and he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woods\u2019 great rival and Ryder Cup team-mate Phil Mickelson also congratulated him, cheekily suggesting a rematch of the US dollar nine million challenge match they played last November \u2013 which Mickelson won. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a great moment for the game of golf. I\u2019m so impressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TigerWoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TigerWoods<\/a>&#39; incredible performance, and I&#39;m so happy for him to capture another Green Jacket. Truly a special day that will go down in history. Congratulations, Tiger! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rematch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rematch<\/a> ?<\/p>&mdash; Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilMickelson\/status\/1117511970708529153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">14 April 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/masters_woods-gap-1024x646.jpg\" alt=\"A look at the longest gaps between major victories\" class=\"wp-image-129546\"\/><figcaption>A look at the longest gaps between major victories (PA Graphics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>An overcome Woods celebrated victory by embracing his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And his former coach Butch Harmon said on Sky Sports: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen him show emotion like that. At any time, anywhere, any time in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was humbled by his own mistakes, the things he went through he created, nobody else created them, and he came out the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe got himself help, he got his body right, he got his head right and he went to work on his game. I couldn\u2019t be happier for him and his family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Six-time major winner Nick Faldo was commentating on CBS in the United States, and said: \u201cThat will be the greatest scene in golf forever. We will never see anything as exhilarating as that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-time major winner Padraig Harrington said on BBC Sport: \u201cThere is not a golfer in the world that isn\u2019t happy that Tiger Woods won. In the modern era he\u2019s been a golf and sport superstar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis comeback story will break out from golf into all sports, the news. It will be everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere will be people who have never looked at golf and will be seeing this tomorrow and wondering what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woods landed his 15th major title at Augusta as he closed to within three of Nicklaus\u2019 all-time record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[268,119,108,322,271,494,324,89,84,349,495,95],"class_list":["post-227674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-masters-news","tag-augusta-national","tag-comeback","tag-european-tour","tag-green-jacket","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-major-tournament","tag-majors","tag-news","tag-pga-tour","tag-return","tag-the-masters","tag-tiger-woods"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - 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