Thursday cover: Tiger has the look again, but practice is a far cry from Masters play


Chitrabhanu Kadalayil
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The National's Sport cover for the Thursday. April 9 issue, featuring Tiger Woods as he prepares to try and resurrect his recent fortunes at the Masters.

Steve Elling writes the cover story, analysing Tiger's practice rounds ahead of Thursday's tournament start at Augusta National, and concludes, "so far, he has hit all the right shots, said all the right things and behaved with impeccable decorum.

“It was obvious something had changed, both in timbre and tone, manner and method.”

But, Elling warns, “practice rounds with old friends on Tuesday are a far cry from live rounds against hungry rivals on Thursday.”

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