Tiger Woods Tanking at Torrey Pines? 10 Reasons This Rumor Makes Zero Sense

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Published: February 8, 2011

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A lot of people are still worried about Tiger Woods because his on course performance at the Farmers Insurance Open looked more like Tiger Not Quite Yet.  

Charge it off to the Chinese New Year.  New clothes from Nike. Or even Rocco Redux. Whatever the reason, the Woods who made his first US appearance in San Diego, was not quite the one many expected or hoped to see. But don’t believe that he “mailed it in,” as some suggested.  It’s just not his style.

There are plenty of reasons we know this.

 

If Woods decided he didn’t want to play, he could have withdrawn earlier in the week. He didn’t have to suffer through a week when he was not ready or felt his game was not ready. If Woods didn’t like the way he was playing, he could have caught the flu and WD’d on Thursday or Friday. As the legendary columnist Jim Murray once pointed out, there are any number of reasons a golfer can catch the flu. Murray contended that double bogeys were the leading cause of flu on the PGA Tour, but Murray added that anything can cause it.  Four putting. The ill-timed shank. A case of the hooks. The flu, Murray contended, can strike at any time, and the causes are just too numerous to mention.    We don’t know if Woods’ restructured knee means he has to change his golf swing.  Maybe he can’t make the same move with his legs that he made for 25 years.  Maybe his doctors said something like, “You can’t do this anymore or you will be a cripple. You have to find a different way to swing.”  Logically speaking, what he was doing before with his swing wrecked his knee.  So the change may be essential, no matter how long it takes.   He’s not known as a quitter. There are many times when Tiger Woods has had indifferent rounds, and at those moments he has often said something like, “...
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