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(nytimes.com) TULSA, Okla., Aug. 12 — There was a different texture to this five-mile walk, an appearance of tension and conflict in Tiger Woods’s midst as he stepped into the furnace of Southern Hills Country Club on a broiling Sunday on the Plains.

As an old foe and a hot-tempered journeyman prodded at his perch, Woods pushed back during the 89th P.G.A. Championship, throwing a roundhouse punch into the air after an early birdie as he tried to navigate toward another milepost.

After he made par on the last hole and thrust his arms in victory, the 31-year-old Woods walked into the scorer’s room to sign his scorecard and found his wife, Elin, and daughter, Sam Alexis, waiting.

The baby, born in June, was dressed in red, just as her father was. Woods said that was when he felt the goose bumps.

“To have her here brings chills to me, even now,” Woods said. (more…)