Tiger Woods Must Accept His Fate as Average If He’s Once Again to Be Elite

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Published: August 23, 2015

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Tiger Woods. PGA Tour player.

Given a career resume that makes him a mandatory part of chats about the game’s all-time greats, even suggesting such a label seems blasphemous.

After all, he has 79 tour victories and 14 major championships. The Associated Press deemed him the “Athlete of the Decade” for the first 10 years of the millennium.

He’ll be the player today’s 45-year-olds tell their grandkids they saw in his prime.

Still, as anyone who watched CBS on Sunday can attest, those days feel long gone.

Though he woke up the echoes and dominated social media with three solid rounds at the Wyndham Championship, he was eight shots off the lead by the time he reached the 13th tee in the final round, and his feel-good story was quickly replaced by the novelty of a 51-year-old winner in Davis Love III.



“Once the tension level went down after the triple [bogey] at 11, he fought back with birdies,” CBS on-course reporter Peter Kostis reasoned. “He’s building the layers of confidence. He’d love to have that chip back at 11 that forced [a] triple bogey. Everything else has looked very positive.”

It sounds reasonable to the casual ear. And it might even be correct on some level.

But no matter how hard the announce crew pumped a four-birdies-in-six-holes finish, the truest measure of where Woods stands relative to today’s peers is evidenced by the fact he entered the last round two shots down and gave four away before what amounted to a cosmetic rally.

"I gave myself a chance and I had all the opportunity in the world today to do it," said Woods, according to ESPN.com's Bob Harig. "And I didn't get it done."

Put in a contending situation on a Triple-A leaderboard, he went from second to 10th. He failed to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs. He doesn’t warra...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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