First he met with the bunch of the guys, as in Nike staff guys, at his restaurant in Jupiter on Tuesday evening, last week.
Brooks Koepka was there, so was Tony Finau, who posed for a picture with his idol — Eldrick Woods.
Hopefully Tiger picked up the tab for the “less fortunate” young guys on the Nike staff.
Then on Thursday, Woods drove over to Lost Tree Village and hung out with team captain Davis Love III and Ryder Cup hopefuls at the home of Jack and Barbara Nicklaus, where Jack declared afterward, “he looks healthy.”
Last week as the PGA Tour tried to focus on PGA National and the players who were competing at the Honda Classic, Woods was still that 1,000-pound elephant in hiding, seen only to those select few.
Woods threw a bone of sorts to the masses by tweeting out a video of himself taking what looked like a slow, very cautious swing with a nine iron while he was in a simulator. Along with it, he gave us a “progressing nicely” tag.
There it was proof that the elephant is alive.
“I can say that looks like an injured and put-back-together 40-year-old man. He has a very short, quick golf swing,” is how Tiger Woods’ best friend — Brandel Chamblee of the Golf Channel described the video.
Woods gave no interviews, and thus his “secret recovery” continues.
Undaunted, Tim Rosaforte of the Golf Channel, who lives over in Tiger’s neck-of-the-woods, told us that Woods was actually “hitting drivers.”
Yes, there was also a Big Foot sighting on Jupiter Island as well.
When it comes to Tiger Woods, his history tells us that he ain’t tellin’ us.
That’s fine, Tiger loves secrecy, good for him.
What it all does is create more anticipation and maybe a lot of false hope for those who think that the Tiger Woods who used to dominate on the PGA Tour will somehow miraculously show up again in the near future.
One thing Woods probably got that evening at Jack’s house were gentle words of encouragement from Nicklaus.
Nicklaus knows a thing or two about bad backs, but not as bad as the one Woods is sporting.
The one thing we all know and Tiger Woods knows it too — it’s a long way from the basement golf simulator to the PGA Tour.
A very long way.
