Column: Tiger Woods playing dual role of player and mentor

Tiger Woods flew to California with Justin Thomas on his plane and had reason to feel older when they landed. Thomas, the reigning PGA Tour player of the year, is among several players who were getting seriously hooked on golf about the time Woods was winning tournaments at a rate never seen. He had vague recollections of Woods making his PGA Tour debut at Riviera as an amateur and asked for details. It was 1992. Woods was 16. That was a full year before Thomas was even born. “I’m sorry, but that really put things in perspective really fast,” Woods said Tuesday at the Genesis Open. This is the new world for Woods even as he tries to bring back his old brand of golf. In his first PGA Tour event