Sporting Life: Woods saved golf, now it's rescuing him

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Tiger Woods follows his shot from the fourth tee during the final round of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, on April 10, 2022.

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He's not human, Rocco Mediate said in polite awe a long time ago. Tiger Woods wasn't built of tissue and bones but, he clarified, of "wires and levers, and a big heart".
Then Woods was the imagined bionic man. Now, 46, father of two teenagers, he's the real hurting man. Cut him open - and he has been again and again - and he'll tell you what you'll find. "Rods and plates and pins and screws."
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