PACIFIC PALISADES, California — A couple hundred souls were on the range Tuesday afternoon at Riviera Country Club and the few who weren’t gathered around Tiger Woods were focused on the same thing as the 15-time major champion: finding enough to win this week’s Genesis Invitational.
Unlike those fellow grinders, Woods is six months removed from his last Tour start, more than two years from his last outside of a major. Through numerous surgeries, a near-fatal car wreck and a comparatively mundane case of plantar fasciitis, he has confessed to doubts about his ability to make it to the first tee, but never about his ability to win when he does. And while much has changed in golf, that much remains constant.
