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Tiger Woods had just about everyone glued to their televisions Sunday morning as he made his dramatic comeback at the Masters and capped it off with a tap-in on the the 18th hole for his fifth win at Augusta.

It was an emotional time, too, watching Tiger perform like he used to on this stage. It was hard not to have goosebumps watching him almost get a hole-in-one on the 16th hole.

And then those fist pumps after winning were just a thing of beauty. All those battles with injuries and other issues since the last time he won a major were a thing of the past.

He was now, once again, a Masters champion.

Tennis legend Serena Williams was one of those fans watching and she shared how she got emotional watching it all go down:

Yup, I can certainly relate with Serena. It was an incredible round of golf and an iconic sports moment that none of us will forget.

Greatness, indeed.

Tiger Woods won the Masters on Sunday, chomping on gum like had been all tournament long.

It left fans wondering why he was chewing gum, because it’s normally not something he does during a tournament.

On Friday I did some research and found a New York Times story from March in which Phil Mickelson basically explained how chewing gum helps him focus and a doctor said that chewing gum in stressful situations helps ease tension.

Those theories and explanations make sense.

So when Tiger Woods was asked about the gum during his press conference Sunday my ears perked up for his answer. I, like all of you, have been waiting days to hear someone bring this up.

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So what did Tiger say? He chuckled and said he chewed the gum to help suppress his appetite because he eats a lot.

I’m a huge Tiger and and couldn’t be happier that he won, but I’m happily calling-you-know-what on his explanation. There’s no way he was chewing gum just to stop himself from snacking. Not during the Masters, even though the pimento cheese sandwiches there are really good.

This is classic Tiger, not wanting to share any information that might help any of his competitors. Tiger is back to winning and he’s still competitive as all heck and I couldn’t be happier. This shows he still wants to have all the edges, too, which I’m all in favor for.

And now I’m guessing pro shops everywhere are going to be making a ton of money on gum sales.

Because look at the results. And look at all the attention the gum got:

Last week before the start of the Masters we told you about a gambler who put $85,000 down on Tiger Woods to win the Masters.

Well, Tiger Woods won the Masters on Sunday and now that person who made the bet is now $1.19 million richer.

And the sportsbook isn’t too thrilled with it. ESPN has the details:

On Tuesday, a bettor at a William Hill U.S. sportsbook in Nevada placed an $85,000 bet on Woods to win the Masters at 14-1 odds. The ticket will pay out $1.19 million, the largest single golf ticket in the company’s history in the U.S.

“It’s great to see Tiger back,” Nick Bogdanovich, director of trading for William Hill U.S. said in a release. “It’s a painful day for William Hill — our biggest loss ever — but a great day for golf.”

Yup, it was a pretty awesome day for golf. And for whoever made that bet.

It was beautiful.

Tiger Woods had just won his fifth Masters, his first major in 11 years, to complete one of the great athletic comebacks in recent sports history. After he sunk a short putt to save bogey and finish off the tournament, he shook the other players’ hands, hugged his caddie, cheered on for the crowd, but then he had one thing on his mind – finding his son.

What many people noted quickly – the spot he hugged his son, Charlie, was nearly the exact same spot he had hugged his father, Earl, back in 1997 at Woods’ first win at Augusta.

Earl Woods passed away in 2006.

“It’s come full circle,” Woods said after the win, noting that in his first win 22 years ago he was with his father celebrating the win, and this time he had his son there. “It’s a special feeling.”

His personal scandal back in 2009 derailed his career for a bit. And then his busted spine over the past few years almost ended it.

But there was Tiger Woods, the greatest golfer to ever play the game, raising his fists into the air on the 18th green at Augusta National Golf Course in the  year 2019, celebrating his 1-stroke win at the Masters and shoving years full of doubt away forever.

It’s his fifth Masters win overall, and his first since 2005. It’s his 15th major championship, but the first since 2008. And just like that his race to catch Jack Nicklaus’ major-championship record of 18 wins is back on.

But this one was easily the most special win of his legendary career, because while his millions of fans lost it over the last four days, watching this all unfold, all those haters who have doubted him for so long now have nothing.

And that has to be pretty sweet.

Because mock-turtleneck Tiger went back to being mock-turtleneck Tiger, this time with some gum in his mouth, as he rallied for the first time ever to win a major. There’s a stat he’ll never have to hear again.

Tiger has been an easy target eve since his scandal and then through his injury woes. Fans made fun of the mistakes he made off the course then continued to snicker as he tried to work his way back to dominance.

They laughed when he chunked chips. They said “that’s it” when he would crumple to the ground mid-round and have to be carted off.

They wondered why he would even keep trying.

But there he was on Sunday walking off the 18th green with his son Charlie by his side and hundreds of adoring fans screaming his name as he made his way to the scorer’s tent to make things official.

There have been many times in recent years when Tiger could have called it quits. The once unbeatable golfer was very beatable and very beat up. Just two years ago he only attended the Masters champions dinner, saying his days were probably over due to his injury. He didn’t play that year and everyone feared the worst.

But then, thanks to the back fusion surgery of the century, he came back. He picked up his first win in ages last September at the Tour Championship. And while it was a great moment with the fans following him up the 18th fairway, it wasn’t a major.

Everyone wanted to see him do that on the grandest stage for him to be truly back.

On Sunday, he proved that and more, putting together a performance that left fans all over the world in awe of what he was doing. It was like old times again, when Tiger and golf fans gathered as a whole to cheer him on, to take us back in time again.

And boy did he do just that with a scintillating back 9 which he almost capped off with a hole-in-one on the 16th hole.

What an amazing day.

Tiger is now really back, and we’re all better for it.

More than a decade after winning his last major championship, and just two years after he feared his career was over during a trip to Augusta National, Tiger Woods became a five-time Masters champion on Sunday.

With multiple major champions in contention late on Sunday, Woods posted clutch birdies at 13, 15 and 16 to build a two-shot advantage on the field. As he approached the 18th green to an incredible ovation from the gallery, Woods knew he only needed a bogey to clinch the green jacket. He barely missed a par putt to close the tournament in style, but tapped in to win the tournament.

As fans chanted his name around the grounds at Augusta, Woods walked off the green and shared a special moment with his family. For the first time ever, Woods’ son Charlie and daughter Sam got to watch their dad win a major championship from the 18th green, and they rushed into Tiger’s arms in a tearjerking moment that CBS announcer Nick Faldo called the greatest in golf history.