There is a lot being written about Tiger woods heading into April. He reportedly has a new girlfriend. He has recently purchased what Jimmy Fallon called "a golf nerd's barbie dream house." He has come to terms with the "boundaries failures" that have plagued the last year of his life and all the while he is trying to scrap his golf game back together.
Focusing on golf while his personal life fell apart (the divorce to Elin Nordegren and the spending decent amounts of children as a newly single father) has been "extremely painful for Woods." He says that, when looking to the future, he plans to take things a day at a time, that's all he can do (Excited about the future).
This doesn't bode well for his golf game, but we should be able to get a great look at how it is coming along the second week of April. The Masters will be such an exciting time for all of us who love watching Tiger woods.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Masters
Tiger Woods won the first major he ever played in at the 1997 Masters tournament by 12 strokes. He was 21 years old.
Tiger's career exploded. He accumulated 15 major victories along with nearly 70 wins on tour. By the age of 33 he was a shoe in for the greatest golfer of all time slot. All of this greatness was launched at the 97 masters.
It's masters time again. There is no bigger stage in golf. The same stage the young Tiger Woods stole the show on now 14 years ago. But, as we all of course know, a lot has happened to Tiger since that unprecedented victory.
Tiger is in a rut. He is down and out. His game has never looked, and most likely felt, so haphazardous. He is at the all time low in golf, and perhaps for Woods, in life. However, this doesn't make the masters any less exciting. Woods is the kind of guy who could shock the sports world by bringing it all together, mending it, glueing it tight, and pulling out a clutch victory this April.
If you were a betting man, at this point, you probably wouldn't have Tiger winning the 2011 tournament at Augusta. But, given the man's past, some part of you has to wonder if Tiger is capable of doing just that.
I'm certainly looking forward to see what happens. Some part of me doesn't want to get my hopes up that Woods will play well. Tiger has been breaking hearts lately, rather than lifting spirits. I just hope that I don't get too optimistic only to have a confused and broken former champion fail to show up to the tournament he dominated 14 years earlier.
Tiger's career exploded. He accumulated 15 major victories along with nearly 70 wins on tour. By the age of 33 he was a shoe in for the greatest golfer of all time slot. All of this greatness was launched at the 97 masters.
It's masters time again. There is no bigger stage in golf. The same stage the young Tiger Woods stole the show on now 14 years ago. But, as we all of course know, a lot has happened to Tiger since that unprecedented victory.
Tiger is in a rut. He is down and out. His game has never looked, and most likely felt, so haphazardous. He is at the all time low in golf, and perhaps for Woods, in life. However, this doesn't make the masters any less exciting. Woods is the kind of guy who could shock the sports world by bringing it all together, mending it, glueing it tight, and pulling out a clutch victory this April.
If you were a betting man, at this point, you probably wouldn't have Tiger winning the 2011 tournament at Augusta. But, given the man's past, some part of you has to wonder if Tiger is capable of doing just that.
I'm certainly looking forward to see what happens. Some part of me doesn't want to get my hopes up that Woods will play well. Tiger has been breaking hearts lately, rather than lifting spirits. I just hope that I don't get too optimistic only to have a confused and broken former champion fail to show up to the tournament he dominated 14 years earlier.
Friday, March 11, 2011
It's Getting Ugly
Friday Tiger Woods drove the ball all of 122 yards off the tee. For anyone who knows anything about the game of golf, that's not good.
It seems if you desire to play golf like Tiger, he is coming to you. His game is just struggling, and it's frightening because it has been struggling for so long. It seems the man you thought could pull his game through anything just can't.
I fear for Woods. I fear for his continued success on the PGA tour. It's like if Michael Jordan, suddenly after a marital divorce, could no longer shoot the ball with confidence.
What a calamity. What a disaster for not only the game of golf but all of professional sports. Don't look forward to the Masters this April either, Tiger's game is hurting so bad he may not even make the cut.
God help Tiger woods.
It seems if you desire to play golf like Tiger, he is coming to you. His game is just struggling, and it's frightening because it has been struggling for so long. It seems the man you thought could pull his game through anything just can't.
I fear for Woods. I fear for his continued success on the PGA tour. It's like if Michael Jordan, suddenly after a marital divorce, could no longer shoot the ball with confidence.
What a calamity. What a disaster for not only the game of golf but all of professional sports. Don't look forward to the Masters this April either, Tiger's game is hurting so bad he may not even make the cut.
God help Tiger woods.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Feeling Sorry For Tiger Woods
My attitude towards this subject has entirely changed. I am no longer feeling like Tiger is someone kissed by the God's who will come around and everything will suddenly be alright. I'm starting to feel sorry for Tiger woods. I recently read an article that basically is as good as anything out there at summing the difficulties up. Here's that link.
It is sad reading it... It makes me remember the old Tiger and how exciting it was when he did those absurdly good things that you only see in movies. I want him to get his mojo back already.
I would like you all to read this little bit that I pulled from the above link:
"There was a time when it was ridiculous to imagine him faltering before topping Nicklaus' career total for majors. Now, it's just as ridiculous to imagine him winning a major anymore.
By - Van Walker.
This is interesting because he is talking about the personal failures affecting the golf game. I think my blog has postulated a major connection between his personal life and his failings on the course that has a lot of explanatory power and plausibility that still isn't being thought about. I think that it has less to do with guilt or anything like that because, well, he'd been cheating on his spouse and all of that for a long time and still doing amazing things on the golf course. It has to do with an actual change in his temperament. He is trying to strike more of a balance where maybe he doesn't allow himself to go all Alexander the Great on they asses because he's trying to mellow himself out, to tame down. In my opinion he needs to stop letting people put his behavior in a box, he needs to live by his own moral code, to be who he is because who he is is the greatest golfer who ever lived. All of that is being threatened by this new mind set he's toying with.
Here's to Tiger getting his mojo back.
It is sad reading it... It makes me remember the old Tiger and how exciting it was when he did those absurdly good things that you only see in movies. I want him to get his mojo back already.
I would like you all to read this little bit that I pulled from the above link:
"There was a time when it was ridiculous to imagine him faltering before topping Nicklaus' career total for majors. Now, it's just as ridiculous to imagine him winning a major anymore.
In the space of a year, he went from the guy who could have been Babe Ruth to the guy who wound up being Roy Hobbs. No one could ever make a movie out of this, because it's almost too preposterous to believe, but there it is: a guy in the prime of his playing career completely lost the ability to play the game that he'd dominated since he was a child.
There is a "why" that I haven't asked, nor will I. I won't ask because its almost too easy to blame his personal failures on his golf game, even though I don't really see a connection. He was the best golfer in the world while hiding a secret that would eventually ruin his marriage and public image, and yet, while carrying all that guilt around, he was still able to stare down an evil 10-foot putt with everything on the line and utterly drain it. I want to believe that there is some other cause, something physical, because it's terrifying to me to contemplate a reality in which everything I've ever been good at is suddenly gone beyond all recall following a personal failure."By - Van Walker.
This is interesting because he is talking about the personal failures affecting the golf game. I think my blog has postulated a major connection between his personal life and his failings on the course that has a lot of explanatory power and plausibility that still isn't being thought about. I think that it has less to do with guilt or anything like that because, well, he'd been cheating on his spouse and all of that for a long time and still doing amazing things on the golf course. It has to do with an actual change in his temperament. He is trying to strike more of a balance where maybe he doesn't allow himself to go all Alexander the Great on they asses because he's trying to mellow himself out, to tame down. In my opinion he needs to stop letting people put his behavior in a box, he needs to live by his own moral code, to be who he is because who he is is the greatest golfer who ever lived. All of that is being threatened by this new mind set he's toying with.
Here's to Tiger getting his mojo back.
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