Tiger Woods’ Optimism After Meltdown Puzzling as Golf Yearns for His Resurgence

By Brendan O'Meara
at Internationaled.org

Published: June 7, 2015

If Tiger Woods plays a round of golf by himself and nobody is there to see it, does he hit a fairway?

As if Woods didn’t already feel alone after shooting a career-worst 85 on Saturday at The Memorial Tournament, he literally played by himself in his final round.

He said, per Steve DiMeglio of USA Today:

This is a lonely sport. The manager is not going to come in and bring the righty or bring in the lefty; you've just got to play through it. And that's one of the hardest things about the game of golf and it's also one of the best things about the game of golf. When you're on, no one is going to slow you down. And when you're off, no one is going to pick you up.

Least of all a golf public that is either indifferent to his return to form or impatient with how long it’s taking for him to resurrect the Woods who was in final pairings, winning tournaments and contending for majors. Woods is a cocooned caterpillar right now.

That apprehension likely comes from a sense of Woods’ biological clock. He’s 39 years old, and his body has been carved, mended and stitched more than Victor Frankenstein’s wretch.

Woods is still four majors behind Jack Nicklaus. Woods can probably contend until he’s 45. That’s 22 more to win four or five. By that time, Rory McIlroy will only be 30 and still in the thick of his prime.

In the meantime, Woods is still working on that swing—"pattern," as he says.

"I'm staying committed to what we're working on," Woods said, per Bob Harig of ESPN.com. "And I've gone through phases like this, rounds like this before in the past where, yeah, it's easy to revert back and go ahead and hit some old pattern, but it doesn't do you any good going forward."

And though some grow weary of following Woods, he undoubtedly matters and always will. Harig wrote, "The fact that at age...

Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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