Once More, With Feeling
Compare and contrast the pictures... the police mug shot after being arrested for driving under the influence – a startling photo of a man who suddenly just looked like any other bum on the weary slide to oblivion – and then the images of a deliriously happy bloke skipping away from Augusta’s 18th green to hug his son and daughter and begin celebrating a fifth Masters win.
Two different snapshots; one of a man in turmoil and deep pain, the other of someone who has found a way back from both that physical pain and the jagged emotional scars of his own flawed behaviour. It is not redemption – winning a game of golf does not offer that – but it does offer reassurance that a life, as well as a body, can indeed be turned
