Can Tiger Woods return to the top table of golf?
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Former world number one Tiger Woods, whose ranking has slipped to a mind-boggling 416th, celebrates his 40th birthday on Wednesday amid growing speculation over what he may yet still achieve as a competitive golfer after being blighted by injuries and poor form in recent years. “There are people who don’t care about his golf”. Nicklaus is third with 73.
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Just days ago, an upbeat Woods said on his website: “Where do I see myself in the next five to 10 years?” The victory would also set in motion a period of unsurpassed domination in the game.
Nicklaus, for one, refuses to write off an 18th Woods major win, saying, “He has always been a very focused young man with a great work ethic and is tremendously talented”.
“Number one, you have to go back to my first major win, which was the Masters in 1997”. One of them is Davis Love, the Ryder Cup captain who has invited Woods to be an assistant captain, should the 441st-ranked golfer in the world obey reality and not make it as a player.
It came as refreshing refrain recently to hear Woods look on the positives – even family and children – which could see him back on the course very soon. Greg Norman played only a handful of majors. “I haven’t done that in what seems like a long time“, Woods said in his pre-Christmas address to fans.
But after a third operation on his back in November 2015, a downbeat Woods exposed his doubts for the first time.
– No light at tunnel’s end? I can’t pretend to know him.
“There’s really nothing I can look forward to, nothing I can build towards”, Woods said at his foundation’s Hero World Challenge event earlier this month.
Asked if he would be at peace with his career if he never won again, Woods said, “I think pretty much everything beyond this will be gravy”.
At the 15th time of asking and having never finished higher than tied-fourth at Augusta, O’Meara overturned a two-shot deficit on the final day of the 1998 Masters to win the Green Jacket. Woods was adamant he would win.
Three surgeries on his lower back in just over 18 months make it hard to gauge his future. He held the lead or joint lead for the first three rounds but found himself needing to hole a six-foot putt at the 72nd hole to get into a play-off against Bob May.
Woods was on fire during the summer of 2000 and added the U.S. PGA title to his U.S. Open and British Open triumphs.
This was Woods in his pomp, his Butch Harmon-modeled swing purring like a precision instrument.
Became the youngest Masters victor with a tournament record aggregate of 18-under-par 270 at Augusta National in 1997.
So who knows when Woods will play again?
Woods’ fitness – or lack of it – has been a major defining factor in his career.
Woods has missed six majors because of injury since 2008.
1999 PGA Championship – Woods edged Spanish teen Sergio Garcia by a stroke for his second major title.
Between the years of 1938 and 1959, Hogan won 63 professional golf tournaments despite his career being interrupted in its prime by World War Two (he served in the US Army Air Forces) and a near-fatal vehicle accident. They dropped from $315 million to $306.9 million during the “Postmodern Tiger” Era.
In the early hours of November 27, 2009, Woods was taken to hospital after he crashed his auto into a fire hydrant and tree.
The sporting world is shocked when news emerges of Woods crashing his auto into a fire hydrant and tree outside his Florida home.
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After Woods’ infidelity became public and the golfer’s announcement of an indefinite absence from the sport, Nike released an ad featuring the voice of his late father asking his son questions, including what his thinking was and if he had learned anything. At the time it was viewed as a significant upset, not a watershed moment in Tiger’s career.
