«Breaking News» Tiger Woods caps comeback with a win at Tour Championship five years after nearly retiring

Tiger Woods has gone from not knowing if he would ever play golf again to winning a PGA tournament.

Woods started out with a three-shot lead Sunday in the Tour Championship, and it took only four holes for him to stretch the lead to five over Justin Rose. 

The gallery at East Lake was enormous in anticipation of Woods winning for the first time in more than five years.

Tiger Woods has gone from not knowing if he would ever play golf again to winning a big tournament

Woods reacts to winning the tournament on Sunday - a remarkable comeback that thrilled golf fans eager to see the old Tiger

Tiger Woods, who not long ago wasn't sure if he would ever play golf again, captured the PGA Tour Championship on Sunday

Woods, foreground, approaches the ninth hole during the final round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta

President Donald Trump sensed victory for Woods on Sunday. 'Looks like a big win could happen,' the president tweeted

It is his 80th title on the PGA Tour and holds a special place as his first trophy after four back surgeries.

Woods opened with a birdie, while Rory McIlroy made bogey from the bunker on the fourth hole. 

Also trying to chase Woods was Rose, who was poised to win the FedEx Cup and the $10 million prize.

The best story conjured up in the world of sport this year was rendered complete on Sunday when Woods capped his extraordinary comeback with a tense victory in the Tour Championship at East Lake.

With world number one Justin Rose playing in front and Rory McIlroy - the most decorated player the game has seen since Tiger - by his side, the 42 year old gleefully accepted the perfect scenario to mark his return to the winner’s circle for the first time in five years.

What a way to usher in the week of the Ryder Cup.

This was Tiger’s 80th victory on the PGA Tour and perhaps the most meaningful after his 14 majors. 

All told, 1,877 days had passed since he claimed his 79th triumph at the Bridgestone Invitational. 

Long days where there appeared no respite on many occasions from the seemingly endless ritual of back discomfort and pain. 

In between Tiger’s last success and this one, no fewer than 118 players won titles on the PGA Tour.

As he’s reminded us over the past eight weeks, however, there is only one Tiger Woods.

Only at the end did the enormity of his achievement weigh heavy. 

Four shots clear, he bogeyed the 15th and the 16th and furrows appeared on his brow as he missed the green at the 17th. 

Woods claimed victory at the Tour Championship at East Lake on Sunday to win his first title in five years

It was the 80th title Woods has won on the PGA Tour after a sensational weekend at the challenging course in Atlanta

But a delicate chip steadied the nerves and a -11 at the least meant a -2 shot success over fellow American Billy Horschel.

Up ahead, Rose was fighting his own demons. 

The $10 million bonus for winning the FedEx Cup – a play-off series covering the last four events - appeared his for the taking heading into the back nine. 

But three bogeys in six holes changed everything. 

With the third one, he dropped from first to third and his projected FedEx winnings fell by $8 million. 

Eight million! Now he needed to birdie the par five 18th to move back into first place.

Two magnificent blows, and he was home and dry. He blew out his cheeks in a huge sigh of relief. 

It had been mighty close, but he got his money on the loot in the end with a two-putt birdie.

For McIlroy, the final round match-up he’d been wanting since he had pictures of Tiger on his bedroom wall was little short of a nightmare. 

This was the sixth time this season he’d been in the final group of a tournament on Sunday – and the sixth time he’d gone backwards. 

In the two years that have now passed since his victory in the 2016 Tour Championship, McIlroy has won just once, and there’s not much hope of improvement until he resolves what is inhibiting him on Sundays.

With the Ryder Cup now so close, it was hard not to see the day’s momentous events as a considerable fillip for the American team over Europe. 

Woods had only begun with a three stroke lead over Europe’s leading duo but neither came close to laying a glove on him.

TIGER WOODS TIMELINE SINCE 2013 - HIS LAST PGA VICTORY

Woods is seen above holding the trophy after winning the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament in Akron, Ohio on August 4, 2013. It would take him five years to win another tournament

2013 - Captures his 79th PGA Tour title at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in August. 

2014 - A week before the Masters in April, Woods announces that he requires back surgery, forcing him to miss the year´s opening major for the first time since 1994. 

He returned to competition in June but struggled on with back pain. 

2015 - Posts the worst score of his professional career in June, a 13-over-par 85 in the third round of the Memorial tournament in Ohio. 

2015 - Woods has a second microdiscectomy performed in September with a follow-up procedure six weeks later, forcing him to shut down his playing schedule indefinitely. 

2016 - In April, he plays his first stretch of holes in eight months at a golf course opening in Montgomery, Texas. 

2016 - Misses all four major championships in a season for the first time in his career.

2016 - In September announces that he hopes to make his competitive return to golf at the PGA Tour´s Oct. 13-16 Safeway Open in Napa, California. 

2016 - Three days before the start of the Safeway Open, pulls out, saying his game is not sharp enough to compete at the highest level.

2017 - Woods ends 17 months on the sidelines by playing the Farmers Insurance Open, where he misses the cut. 

The following week he pulls out of the European Tour's Dubai Desert Classic before the second round, citing back spasms.

2017 - Undergoes lumbar fusion surgery in April. The procedure involves fusing two vertebrae in his lower back into a single structure. 

2017 - Arrested after being found asleep at the wheel of his parked car in Florida in May. 

Toxicology report reveals he had five drugs in his system, but no alcohol.

2017 - Woods returns to competition in November at the unofficial World Challenge, finishing equal ninth in the 18-man field. 

2018 - After being among the title contenders at several tournaments during the season, Woods ends his five-year barren run by clinching the Tour Championship, his 80th PGA Tour victory, leaving him two shy of the all-time mark held by Sam Snead.

Source: Reuters

Since contending for the Open in July, Woods has got better with virtually every passing tournament. 

His stroke average for his last five events has been a shade over 67 shots. 

It’s 120 miles from here to Augusta National and now he’s a winner again, he’s going to be short odds to return to the majors trail at the Masters next April.

Woods had led 23 previous tournaments by three shots or more going into the final round in his illustrious career - and won all 23 of them. 

The only question, therefore, was whether his nerve would hold after such a long time without a win. It didn’t take him long to answer that one. 

About 15 minutes, if truth be told. 

In front of another record crowd he struck a wedge approach to the opening green to 10ft and confidently holed the birdie putt to extend his lead to four strokes. 

Poor McIlroy lost his swing completely in the middle of his front nine; Rose was making too many mistakes ahead.

Thereafter, Woods reached deep into the memory banks and drew on all those occasions when error-free golf was good enough to get the job done. 

Only at the end did nerves kick in. Eighteen months after a fourth back operation, the last vestige of doubt has been removed.

He really is back.   

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The gallery at East Lake was enormous ...

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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.

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