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Can Tiger Woods Win Again?

Article by Keith Barker

Tiger Woods is without a doubt one of the best golfers, if not the best golfer of our time. Tiger, in his heyday, was all but unstoppable. From his early amateur days to his beginning in the PGA. We have watched him go from a young college kid to an iconic professional golfer, but, as we all know, nothing lasts forever. Was he the cause of his own downfall? Absolutely, and Tiger would be the first one to tell you that himself. The fact that Woods has blazed such an incredible trail is part of the reason why we are all so stunned that he hasn’t won a tournament in 18 months. Let’s back up a little and think about this for a moment. He was on top of the Golf World and he had the money to buy or do anything he wanted and he also had the perfect family life with a beautiful wife and two adorable children. He also had the temptation of women on the side because when your in his position, women throw themselves at you and that’s a hard situation for any man to resist. Even worse, when your in such a position, all you have are yes people around you and people putting you up on this high horse and foolishly thinking that you can do no wrong. That’s a lot for anybody to juggle and eventually the walls will come crashing down like they did on Tiger. Now, imagine being so humbled because you’ve lost everybody’s respect, your loving family, your dignity, your way of life, plus the shame and embarrassment because all your dirty laundry is out there on every talk show, radio show, and on everybody’s lips. It’s no wonder that he wanted to crawl in a hole and disappear for a while. At that point, who cared about golf, Tiger was desperate to do anything to keep from losing his family. I’ve been there, done that and it is a very tough pill to swallow. Granted, a lot of people would say that he had it coming, but when the reality hits you, it just absolutely crushes you. Once you get over the realization that your marriage is over, that’s one thing, but when the reality hits you that your not going to be a daily part of your children’s lives, you don’t get over that one, you just somehow learn to live with it. Now, if that’s not enough, then you have his health issues and the coaching issue. When you go through things like that, it takes a while to get back to your norm and I believe that is where Tiger is right now. All of the golf commentators, and I won’t name names, but pretty much all of them have expressed serious doubt in Tiger’s abilities to turn this thing around. Again, we haven’t seen anything like the 2009 Tiger Woods, which is the last time Woods won a tournament, I believe it was mid November,2009, but he showed a lot of focus at the 2011 Masters and he had the walk and the determination stare like the winning Tiger of old. He also just dropped to number 8, behing Paul Casey, in the world golf rankings and believe me when I say that he doesn’t like it one bit. Tiger Woods is 35 now and along with his nagging injuries, he simply has to re-invent himself and find another way to get to the win column. This goes to all those nay-sayers, I have predicted in some of my earlier articles this year that it’s not if Tiger can win, but when will Tiger win and I will go on record again and say that it WILL be this year. Yeah, I know, pretty bold for a one-eyed fat man, wait a minute, where have I heard that before. Anyway, keep your eyes open for a Tiger Woods win real soon, maybe even this week at the 2011 The Players Championship. Deep down, I think we all know that Woods will get it back together and start winning again, it’s just a matter of will, determination, and a little more time. What’s your opinion? See you on the blog side.

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