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| Tiger Woods |
After we learned in March that his back injury was too serious for him to keep playing, and that it needed surgery, many analysts were not sure when he'd return to the links. Maybe sometime in the summer, I thought. It was a bit of a surprise to hear him announce a week before that he'd play at the Quicken Loans National this past weekend.
Apparently he was pleased enough with his play, even though it was terrible: He bogeyed seven holes in Round 1, and bogeyed five holes, plus double-bogeyed one, in Round 2. The main reason he returned, as many thought, was because this tournament benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation. But he didn't seem to have been close to ready, and he must've been embarrassed to have missed the cut at +4.
Woods has an awesome 14 Majors in his resume, but he hasn't won one in six years now, the US Open being the last. At 38 I'd say he has plenty of time to win more, although it's unlikely that he'll reach Jack Niklaus' 18 Majors. He's a determined competitor, no doubt, but I wonder how patiently and wisely he's approaching his training, preparations and play at this point. I wonder, too, about the mind game, after a disaster of a marriage and an accumulating set of injuries.
He seemed positively invincible in the run-up to 14 Majors, but he has been grossly flawed since. So again more wins to add to his resume? My money is on him. But he's in the waning stages of his career, and he doesn't seem to have the mind or the body to go gracefully into that night.
Woods has an awesome 14 Majors in his resume, but he hasn't won one in six years now, the US Open being the last. At 38 I'd say he has plenty of time to win more, although it's unlikely that he'll reach Jack Niklaus' 18 Majors. He's a determined competitor, no doubt, but I wonder how patiently and wisely he's approaching his training, preparations and play at this point. I wonder, too, about the mind game, after a disaster of a marriage and an accumulating set of injuries.
He seemed positively invincible in the run-up to 14 Majors, but he has been grossly flawed since. So again more wins to add to his resume? My money is on him. But he's in the waning stages of his career, and he doesn't seem to have the mind or the body to go gracefully into that night.
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