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Tiger Woods Is A Major Champion Again. 'It Could Be The Greatest Comeback In Sports'

"This is a man who was as down as a human being could be," Jeff Benedict, co-author of the biography "Tiger Woods," says after the golfer's Masters victory on Sunday.
Tiger Woods celebrates after making his putt on the 18th green to win the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Ga. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

Tiger Woods has overcome the odds to regain a once-familiar title: major champion.

Woods in Augusta, Georgia, on Sunday. It’s the golfer’s fifth time wearing the green jacket, but his first major title in more than a decade. Since his last Masters win in 2005, Woods and personal scandals that had many pronouncing the end of his career.

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