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I wrote the wrongest possible Tiger Woods take, and the Internet will never let me forget it

Mike EhrmannI remember precisely where I was when I wrote it—the media center at St. Andrews, probably eating some very bland Scottish food, Golf Digest's Alex Myers sitting to my right, ready to hit the button when I finished.
There have been many good golf trips in my short career, but I still think the 2015 Open Championship was my favorite. Everything they say about the town of St. Andrews is true. It's beautiful without being pompous, stately without being imposing—the kind of place you feel welcome without having to seek it out. Three of us found an AirBnB two miles from the course, and every morning we'd walk to the course, past gradually more expensive homes, and march through one of the town gates into the village. We'd work all day, and when we filed our last stories around 9 or 10 p.m., it was still light out, so we'd find a pub and stay as late as they'd let us. I didn't sleep more than five hours the whole week, but the experience was so ..

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Masters 2019: 5 words that are officially part of the Tiger Woods lexicon after his winning press conference

JIM WATSONAUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods spoke some heartfelt words while accepting the Ben Hogan Award at the Golf Writers Association of America dinner on the eve of the Masters. He added some new words to his ever-growing golf lexicon after accepting the green jacket on Sunday.
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Several years ago, we put together a list of our favorite “Tigerisms,” ranging from abbreviations for people (“Steiny”) to abbreviations in general (“Traj”). The list is long overdue for an update, but in the meantime, here are five new(er) terms Tiger trotted out at his winning press conference.
“Cush”
Definition: Short for cushion. You know, because saying “cushion” is a lot more taxing. Tiger said “cush” three times on Sunday to conserve his energy after an exhausting week.
How Tiger uses it in a sentence: “Birdieing 15 and 16, you know, gave me a nice little cush with the last two holes to play.”
“Squeezer”
Definition: What Tiger..

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Masters 2019: Tiger Woods finds a way to beat Artificial Intelligence, too

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods 2.0, or whatever version won the 2019 Masters in a more subdued manner than we remember, not only beat Francesco Molinari and Brooks Koepka (and the storm that swept into Augusta on Sunday afternoon), but he beat the Artificial Intelligence of IBM Watson.
This year for the first time, the Masters used enterprise-grade AI to capture every shot by all 89 players in the field to produce a three-minute highlight video for Masters.com almost instantly at the end of each round. Even more fascinating, the IBM Cloud stored and integrated data for each shot measuring the Crowd Roar and Player Gestures—hand, arm and facial movements—to create an overall excitement score. Tiger, of course, “broke” the computer model because his crowd roars were typically louder than everyone else’s even on tap-ins.
At least four of his shots in the last round scored a perfect 1.0 in crowd reaction: his short putt for a bogey to win on the 18th green, and his birdie putts on the third, 1..

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