Augusta feels enhancing effect of Tiger Woods’ return to combat | Andy Bull

Finally listening to his doctors and taking time off helped put the four-times Masters champion back on his feet

They dye the water at Augusta to make sure the ponds are just the right shade of blue. They paint the grass green, too, in the patches where it wears, and the sand in the bunkers is really quartz brought in from a quarry in Carolina, which is why it shines so white. The colours are all supposed to be just so. But this year everything seems just a touch brighter, warmer and more brilliant.

Golf is always more vivid here when Tiger Woods is in town. Ticket prices are up, by 20% according to the online retailers, and TV ratings will be, too. His Sunday round at Valspar a fortnight ago drew a bigger audience than the final rounds of any of the last three majors.

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