3 takeaways from a big sports weekend

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Only in April can you get important events in golf, swimming, curling and skating happening at the same time. To untangle it all, here are three takeaways from a delightfully diverse weekend of sports:

1. Scottie Scheffler is for real, but Tiger is still the people's champ.

Scheffler arrived at Augusta on a serious roll, having won three of his previous five tournaments to soar to No. 1 in the world rankings for the first time. But there were questions about whether a 25-year-old who'd never won a major, and who was largely unfamiliar to casual golf fans, was truly worthy of that honour.

Scheffler answered them all with an emphatic Masters victory that saw him jump out to a five-stroke lead through two rounds before cruising to the green jacket by three shots. His dominance, both in this tournament and over the last two months on tour, should be the talk of the golf world right now. But everyone seems more interested in the guy who finished 47th.

Sorry, that's an unkind way of putting it, because what Tiger Woods did at the Masters was incredible. No one expected to see him back playing competitive golf so soon after nearly losing his right leg in a February 2021 car crash — much less playing as well as he did on Thursday, when he tied for 10th place in the opening round. The wheels came off after that, and Woods hobbled to a pair of 78s on the weekend — his worst rounds ever at the Masters. He said afterwards that he'll definitely play the British Open in July at his beloved St. Andrews, but he's not sure about the PGA Championship and the U.S. Open in the meantime.

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