Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia have a complicated history that involves a years-long feud that boiled over during the 2013 Players Championship.
Masters 2017: Tiger Woods congratulates Sergio Garcia on his Augusta victory
‘Congrats, Sergio,’ Tiger tweets after Garcia gets the major-less monkey off his back. ‘Well earned.’
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But when Garcia outlasted Justin Rose on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday at Augusta, Woods was quick to offer congratulations to his former nemesis.
Woods, of course, had to pull out of this year’s contest with his nagging back injury. But even the presence of the 14-time major champion could not have added any more drama to an unbelievable Masters tournament. And Tiger, who does not tweet very often, acknowledging Sergio’s achievement just added another layer of sportsmanship to the event during which Garcia and Rose exchanged thumbs up and hand shakes while their spouses hugged. It was rather special.
“I think at the end of the day we are all people and we have to represent our game … the way we should,” Garcia said later in Butler Cabin. “We’re good friends so we were very respectful of one another we were cheering each other on. We wanted to beat the other guy, not that guy to lose it.”
Now, if Woods can recover from his multiple back surgeries and get back into competition, who wouldn’t want to see Tiger v. Sergio at the 2018 Masters?
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