Sport is not short of second comings after adversity – Ali in boxing, Seles in tennis, Lauda in F1, even Hogan in golf – but there is an extra dimension to Woods’s
Famous sporting comebacks: (Top row L-R) Monica Seles, Muhammad Ali, Lester Piggott; (Bottom row L-R) Mario Lemieux, Niki Lauda, Ben Hogan Composite: Getty/AP