Tiger Woods expresses gratitude as golfers wear iconic Sunday outfits to pay tribute after car crash

This week has been one of the strangest golf weeks in recent years. Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a career-threatening car crash on Tuesday and underwent multiple procedures in the days that followed as athletes around the world offered their best wishes.

On Sunday at the Cologuard Classic, a PGA Tour Champions event, Phil Mickelson paid tribute to his longtime rival and recent friend by going red and black with his script – a nod to Tiger’s Sunday Sons. Many players participating in the WGC-Workday Championship on the PGA Tour also paid tribute to the one who switched sports.

Rory McIlroy, Cameron Champ, Patrick Reed, Tony Finau, Jason Day, Justin Thomas and several other golfers attending the first WGC event of 2021 at The Concession wore a form of red top and black pants to let Tiger know they were thinking . him.

Finau even went for the “Tiger at the 2018 PGA Championship” look with the back hat.

One of the fascinating parts of Tiger’s career is that late turn where he plays the role of mentor and friend to so many of the best players in the world who are in their twenties and thirties. Thomas was on the verge of tears on Tuesday when asked about Woods’ crash, and everyone throughout the week has been touching in their effusive praise for the best of it.

“He means a lot to golf,” Finau said earlier this week. “I can only speak from my experience, it means a lot to my career. I have said that I think that many times the Masters of 1997 changed the course of my life, the course of my career. Without it. event, I probably wouldn’t, I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t play golf, so it definitely changed the course of my life, my career.

“I think I’m one of the hundreds of guys here who would probably say the same thing. He means a lot to the game, but individually I think he means a lot to us just individually, especially to me.”

Later that day on Sunday, as the plethora of tributes circled, Woods took the time to express his gratitude on Twitter.

“It’s hard to explain how moving today was when I turned on the television and saw all the red shirts,” Woods said. “For every golfer and fan, you are truly helping me through this difficult time.”