Tiger Woods, the Ryder Cup and Why He Should Still Compete

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Published: August 11, 2010

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After Tiger Woods bombed at Firestone last week, shooting a 77 on Sunday to conclude a miserable 18-over-par weekend that stoked the “Tiger’s done!” calls, the hounds hit their keyboards and the airwaves.

Right him off, it’s over. No way he’s even going to make the cut at the PGA. And forget about the Ryder Cup. He stinks, he’s not one of the U.S.’s 12 best guys. He can’t win anymore.

Any of you who share those same feelings, you may be right. Maybe. Tiger Woods may never win another major; he may win a couple Bob Hope’s and call it a career. Fact is, none of us know for sure. So I’m not saying you’re wrong: I’m just saying it’s shortsighted.

We all know Woods is playing the worst golf of his career right now, and it’s not all that surprising. Tiger is the only one who is surprised, and he’s not even surprised at the outcome, just the timing.

“To be honest with you, I thought I would have been playing poorly a little bit sooner, with all that’s going on,” Woods said Tuesday from Whistling Straits, the site of this week’s PGA Championship. “But somehow I’ve been able to play a little better than I thought for a stretch, and then it finally caught up with me last week.”

Last week didn’t start all this commotion, but it sure blew the lid off it. I found it quite ironic that some purveyors of opinion took Tiger’s worst career event, the Firestone collapse, and used that as the defining reason as to why Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin shouldn’t make Woods a captain’s choice if he doesn’t qualify on his own.

“Hopefully I won’t be a [captain’s] pick,” Woods said. “I would like to be able to play myself onto that team.”

Woods currently sits 10th on the Ryder Cup rankings. He needs to ca...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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