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Everyone Loves a Comeback Story

Photo credit: Kevin C. Cox - Getty Images
Photo credit: Kevin C. Cox - Getty Images

From Esquire

In a feat some are already describing as one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, Tiger Woods won the Masters Sunday, snatching his first major championship win in 11 years.

Woods’s dry years were marred by multiple injuries, four back surgeries, an addiction to painkillers, and a divorce that provided years of tabloid fodder. "After I won my 14th [championship], I felt like I still had plenty more major championships that I could win, but unfortunately I just didn't do it,” Woods told USA Today last week. "I put myself there with chances on the back nine on various Sundays and just haven't done it. You know, hopefully this year, I put myself there again, and hopefully I'll get it done."

This victory marks Woods’s 15th major tournament win, and makes him, at 43 years old, the second-oldest Masters winner ever. He still trails Jack Nicklaus, who win in 1986 at the age of 46. Woods is also the tournament’s youngest winner, earning his first victory in 1997 when he was 21 years old. "It’s come full circle," he said in a post-tournament interview. "My dad was there in ’97, and now I’m the dad with two kids there."

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Naturally, the internet freaked out over the comeback of the year. Even former President Barack Obama tweeted his congratulations.

Folks shared the footage of Tiger's touching embrace with his son after his victory, and compared it to the hug he gave his own father after his first Master's win 22 years ago.

Other social media users were quick to point out that the last time Woods snatched a major win, the world was a very different place.

And Woods was also congratulated by his highest-profile golfing buddy.

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