Despite making Masters history on Friday, Tiger Woods is still not satisfied - ESPN

AUGUSTA, GA. — The morning light framed the picture perfectly. Tiger Woods, standing on 14 tee with the iconic 13 green at Augusta National Golf Club in the background. It was a scene that could have only occurred under these circumstances — an unfinished round due to a weather delay on Thursday, an early morning start on Friday — but it was one that nonetheless exuded the inexplicable thing about Augusta that Woods would later describe as «aura» and «mystique.»

With the patrons still trickling onto the grounds, the crowd around Woods at this corner of the property that usually resembles a stadium tour felt more like an intimate acoustic session. The chirping of the morning birds colored the silent air before the sound of Woods' driver cut through it. At 7:50 a.m. Woods was off and the grind had just begun.

By the time it was over — nearly 10 hours and 23 holes later — Woods had made history. He finished at 1-over and made the cut for a record-24th consecutive Masters. When asked about it after his second round was over, however, the 15-time major winner was uninterested in basking in history.

«It means I have a chance going into the weekend, I'm here,» Woods said of his new record. «I have a chance to win the golf tournament. I don't know if they're all going to finish today, but I'm done. I got my two rounds in. Just need some food and some caffeine, and I'll be good to go.»

If it feels like you've heard that kind of sentiment from Woods before, it's because you have. At the few tournaments Woods tees it up in recent years, the question always comes at some point: «Do you feel like you can win this tournament?»

Woods sometimes smiles, sometimes doesn't, but he always says some version of what he said on Tuesday of this