Nantz, along with Barrow and director Steve
Milton, did a great job of letting the images
of Woods celebrating with his family tell the
story. Nantz was silent for 2 minutes, 42 seconds
between the time he said, “the return to glory”
after Woods sank his putt on the 18th hole and his
family accompanying him back to the clubhouse.
Barrow also had the clip of Tiger hugging his
father Earl after the 1997 Masters ready to go
once the moment presented itself.
“I think what we saw today was such a human
side of Tiger that if there were people that
maybe weren’t the biggest Tiger fans in the
world, I think today they saw a side of this,” Nantz
said. “We didn’t see him as a loving dad because
that’s been shielded from public view. To see his
interactions with his children today, that was as
rich as the sports moment because we haven’t
seen that before. We saw it with his dad.”
Barrow and Milton also captured a prescient
moment when Francesco Molinari was walking
up to the 12th tee with a two-shot lead but
looked nervous. Molinari’s tee shot would go
into the water and opened the door for Woods.
“One of the great moments of any Masters is
when the leaders walk from 11 to 12. I think you
see a lot on the player’s faces,” Barrow said. “It is
not a very long hole, but treacherous. A lot have
stood there with the lead and it has ended up in
disaster and that’s where it started for him.”
Nantz said that Molinari’s collapse was a bit jarring
because he held his own against Woods at last
year’s British Open and at the Ryder Cup. He
added that once four of the last six players found
the water on No. 12 “that I and everyone else knew
thatthiswasgoingtobeTiger’shistoricday.”
Image: Chris Condon