Tiger Woods: What His Performance This Fall Means for 2011

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Published: October 11, 2010

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Now that the sun has set on the final hole of Tiger Woods' most controversial and bizarre season as a professional, what's the verdict?

Does ending his season with three top-15 finishes warrant erasing his missed cut and withdrawal from our memory?

Do a pair of fourth-place finishes in major championships (Masters and US Open) counteract what was, to be blunt, Woods' most mediocre, unpredictable season since entering the Tour?

Tiger Woods has become a question mark.

It's the most common theme, sentiment, and notion that spawns from fans and foes alike about Woods' consistently inconsistent, overwhelmingly underwhelming 2010 season.

What's most bizarre is having to associate uncertainty with the one player who transformed golf by epitomizing certainty. Something about it feels foreign, faulty, and frankly freakish.

Remember the guy who used to hit wayward shots behind enormous trees or into deep, desolate bunkers, but always had a magical recovery shot in his arsenal?

Or the guy who you'd never think about second-guessing when the pressure was on, with the game on the line, and victory just a single stroke away?

That was the Tiger Woods of 71 PGA Tour victories, 14 major championships, and a host of other accolades that earned him the World's No. 1 Ranking.

Did Woods ever engender a sense of distress or despair?

Well now, with a bitter sex scandal exposed and divorce officially over, it's worth wondering whether that fierce, fervent competitor will ever reemerge.

This season, his two best finishes were also his two most bitter, difficult-to-watch finishes. At both the Masters and US Open, Woods' putter eluded him on the final day of the tournament and inhibited a late surge.

A win at either event may have propelled his return to dominance, but there something else clearly awry with Woods not just in those two events, but throu...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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