I don't know if you heard, but Tiger Woods won a golf tournament last weekend.
Understandably, the sports world came to a screeching halt early last Sunday afternoon to see if Woods could win the Masters.
You want to watch the very best be at their very best. And while the 2019 version of Tiger Woods may not be as dominant as the 2000 version, the opportunity to see him earn another green jacket was too good to pass up.
It was a dramatic early Sunday afternoon, with tee times pushed up to attempt to beat expected bad weather. It was a patient Tiger Woods, dare I say more mature Tiger Woods, that saw his competition make mistakes on a course he knows so well.
When he sunk the final putt of the tournament to win his first major tournament title in more than a decade, you could see what it meant to him. There was an uncharacteristic yell. Hugs for his children and his mother and a handful of his close friends. Then more congratulations from his fellow golfers as he approached the scoring room to sign his card to make it officially official Woods had won his fifth Masters title.
It was a popular win. And not all of Tiger's wins have been popular ones.
Back in Tiger's dominant era, talk around the proverbial water cooler seemingly had sports fans in two camps - those that liked Tiger and thought he was great for golf and those that didn't like the fact Tiger was seemingly winning all the time and that was bad for golf.
But they had one thing in common - they watched. And people who normally wouldn't spend 30 seconds of their Sunday watching men hit a ball around some immaculately manufactured grounds would at least check in to see how Woods was doing because of his flair for the dramatic.
And then there was the scandal in his personal life of a decade ago, there's no need to rehash it. But the bloom fell off Tiger's rose as national polls even as recent as five years ago had Woods among the most disliked athletes.
It was about the same time the most serious of a series of surgeries began for Woods. There a total of four on his back, the last in April of 2017 being a spinal fusion to alleviate pain in his back and leg.
But Woods kept working at getting back to golf's elite. And last Sunday, he got there.
There was a question and answer at Woods' post-win press conference that caught my attention so much I had to look back to the transcript to make sure I got it correct.
"People have struggles in their lives, personal struggles, physical struggles, and you've overcome these things. What message might you say to people who are struggling?" was the question.
"Well, you never give up," Tiger answered. "That's a given. You always fight. Giving up's never in the equation."
Tiger never gave up on his golf game. And it looks like took the same approach in his personal life with his family and friends.
I hope Tiger has found some contentment, some happiness, some peace in his life off the golf course. And he gives all of us the opportunity to watch more final rounds like last Sunday when he's on it.