Tiger Woods’ Return to Form Makes Him Favorite Entering Memorial Championship

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Published: May 30, 2013

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There isn't a hotter golfer on the PGA Tour right now than Tiger Woods, who is undeniably the favorite to win the 2013 Memorial Championship this weekend.

He'll be paired with Fred Couples for the first two days, according to the Golf Channel, and you can be sure the crowds surrounding these two golf giants will be massive:



Woods has won four tournaments in six stroke-play starts on the PGA Tour thus far in 2013, and he's finished in the top five in all but one.

Let that sink in for a moment. 

He's winning 66.6 percent of his starts this year—video-game numbers, by any measure—and came agonizingly close to winning this year's Masters with a finish in fourth place.



He's No. 1 on tour in putting and scoring—among other key statistics.

We haven't seen Woods dominate like this since 2009 when he won six tournaments, and it's clear his nearly four-year run of mediocrity—relatively speaking—is at an end. 

As Lee Westwood recently put it, via Dave Shedloski of GolfDigest.com, "I don't think he's on the verge of [a crazy run], I think he's in one."

Factor in Woods' exceptional record at the Memorial, having won Jack Nicklaus' signature tournament five times in the past, and you have a recipe for utter domination this upcoming weekend. 

Nicklaus recently spoke to reporters about Woods' success at his tournament, via Shedloski: "Tiger seems to play very well here. He's got several golf courses he plays well at: Pebble, St. Andrews, Augusta ... plays well at Bay Hill. I'm delighted that this is one of the golf courses that he likes."

Simply put, Woods owns this tournament. It's as if there's some mysterious magic at work when Woods tees off at Muirfield Village Golf Club.



Who can forget his glorious hole-out from the shaggy rough on No. 16 last year with the tournament on t...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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