TIGER, who? It's interesting how, in 2008 after Eldrick Tont Woods won his fourteenth real crown at the U.S. Open in Torrey Pines, the wearing scene was certain that he'd break the record-breaking record of Jack Nicklaus.
No one saw his downfall. No one saw that club-crushing clobber from Elin. No one anticipated, eight years forward as he comes back to aggressive golf following a 15-month nonattendance, that Tiger Woods is overlooked, going bald, winless in 40 months, superfluous.
Today at the Hero World Challenge competition in the Bahamas, TW comes back to swing his TaylorMade M2 driver and to touch that Bridgestone ball utilizing his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter. Tiger's back. In any case, he shouldn't join. Positioned a humble 898th on the planet (if my exploration is right, our top-positioned Pinoy golfer Miguel Tabuena sits at 156), Tiger is playing in a field who's most reduced positioned player is No. 38. What's more, when he last joined two years back, think about how he put? Last place. Be that as it may, hello, he's Tiger Woods — as he's playing.
How awful are Tiger's wounds? Stumbled by a back damage that required two operations, he hasn't contended since August a year ago. Before that, his physical diseases were unbelievable. Here are portions of a piece I composed entitled, "Tiger Woods, analyzed by Dr. Tony San Juan:"
"Golf isn't care for MMA. Dislike football or ball where wounds proliferate. It's not Pacquiao punching Bradley. Golf is a respectable man's diversion. It's a game of restful strolls, easy 9-press swings, delicate putts, warily handshakes. Golf is not a game of wounds. That is the thing that I thought. Be that as it may, Tiger Woods has endured rehashed wounds. Consider these tribulations: Surgery on left knee to evacuate liquid inside and outside the ACL. Arthroscopic surgery to his left side knee to repair ligament harm. Two anxiety cracks of the left tibia. Surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee by utilizing a ligament from his correct thigh. MCL sprain. Bring down back fits. What's more, simply last March 31, surgery for a squeezed nerve."
That article was dated April 2014. After that, Tiger's physical hardships did not make strides. Whenever inquired as to whether the likelihood of retirement lingered, he said as of late: "Not having the capacity to get up, not having the capacity to move, how might I hope to turn out around here and swing a golf club at 120 miles a hour and be ballistic when I can't get up? Along these lines, better believe it, there was a great deal of fear and times where I thought... is it safe to say that it was reasonable?"
JACK NICKLAUS. Recently, Nicklaus was interviewd by BBC Sport and got some information about Tiger's rebound.
Ever the confident person, he trusts that Tiger has no less than 10 more years of aggressive golf in front of him. What's alarming Tiger, he was asked, aside from his wounds?
"That most likely is the five creeps between his ears that is the part that he's experiencing difficulty with," Nicklaus said. "(Tiger) must re-assess… and discover what will happen to him and in what capacity would he be able to rationally get himself once more into playing golf once more."
Golf is mental. The vast majority of game is mental. In any case, golf is the most rationally difficult of ballgames. Steve Elkington once said, "The psyche is your most prominent weapon. It's the best club in your sack. It's likewise your Achilles' heel."
What about the likelihood of Tiger breaking Jack's record?
Nicklaus won his eighteenth major at 46 years old. (He won his sixteenth and seventeenth at 40 years of age.) Tiger turns 41 on Dec. 30 and he has amassed 14. Will he win five more at this late stage to outperform The Golden Bear? The two-letter answer is No. On the off chance that he triumphs in one more major or gathers a couple of additional, it will be much the same as Donald Trump's impossible agitated with Hillary. In any case, if there's one individual who can do it, it's TW.
"I don't think anything is sheltered," Nicklaus said, of his record. Be that as it may, in the first place, the 76-year-old Nicklaus said, he must demonstrate it.
"I think Tiger has the physical and the mental capacity to have the capacity to handle that yet then he must go out and do it," he said. "We'll see. I wish him well."
(john@pages.ph)
Distributed in the Sun.Star Cebu daily paper on December 01, 2016.
Most recent issues of Sun.Star Cebu additionally accessible on your cell phones, portable workstations, and tablets. Subscribe to our computerized releases at epaper.sunstar.com.ph and get a free seven-day trial.
No one saw his downfall. No one saw that club-crushing clobber from Elin. No one anticipated, eight years forward as he comes back to aggressive golf following a 15-month nonattendance, that Tiger Woods is overlooked, going bald, winless in 40 months, superfluous.
Today at the Hero World Challenge competition in the Bahamas, TW comes back to swing his TaylorMade M2 driver and to touch that Bridgestone ball utilizing his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter. Tiger's back. In any case, he shouldn't join. Positioned a humble 898th on the planet (if my exploration is right, our top-positioned Pinoy golfer Miguel Tabuena sits at 156), Tiger is playing in a field who's most reduced positioned player is No. 38. What's more, when he last joined two years back, think about how he put? Last place. Be that as it may, hello, he's Tiger Woods — as he's playing.
How awful are Tiger's wounds? Stumbled by a back damage that required two operations, he hasn't contended since August a year ago. Before that, his physical diseases were unbelievable. Here are portions of a piece I composed entitled, "Tiger Woods, analyzed by Dr. Tony San Juan:"
"Golf isn't care for MMA. Dislike football or ball where wounds proliferate. It's not Pacquiao punching Bradley. Golf is a respectable man's diversion. It's a game of restful strolls, easy 9-press swings, delicate putts, warily handshakes. Golf is not a game of wounds. That is the thing that I thought. Be that as it may, Tiger Woods has endured rehashed wounds. Consider these tribulations: Surgery on left knee to evacuate liquid inside and outside the ACL. Arthroscopic surgery to his left side knee to repair ligament harm. Two anxiety cracks of the left tibia. Surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee by utilizing a ligament from his correct thigh. MCL sprain. Bring down back fits. What's more, simply last March 31, surgery for a squeezed nerve."
That article was dated April 2014. After that, Tiger's physical hardships did not make strides. Whenever inquired as to whether the likelihood of retirement lingered, he said as of late: "Not having the capacity to get up, not having the capacity to move, how might I hope to turn out around here and swing a golf club at 120 miles a hour and be ballistic when I can't get up? Along these lines, better believe it, there was a great deal of fear and times where I thought... is it safe to say that it was reasonable?"
JACK NICKLAUS. Recently, Nicklaus was interviewd by BBC Sport and got some information about Tiger's rebound.
Ever the confident person, he trusts that Tiger has no less than 10 more years of aggressive golf in front of him. What's alarming Tiger, he was asked, aside from his wounds?
"That most likely is the five creeps between his ears that is the part that he's experiencing difficulty with," Nicklaus said. "(Tiger) must re-assess… and discover what will happen to him and in what capacity would he be able to rationally get himself once more into playing golf once more."
Golf is mental. The vast majority of game is mental. In any case, golf is the most rationally difficult of ballgames. Steve Elkington once said, "The psyche is your most prominent weapon. It's the best club in your sack. It's likewise your Achilles' heel."
What about the likelihood of Tiger breaking Jack's record?
Nicklaus won his eighteenth major at 46 years old. (He won his sixteenth and seventeenth at 40 years of age.) Tiger turns 41 on Dec. 30 and he has amassed 14. Will he win five more at this late stage to outperform The Golden Bear? The two-letter answer is No. On the off chance that he triumphs in one more major or gathers a couple of additional, it will be much the same as Donald Trump's impossible agitated with Hillary. In any case, if there's one individual who can do it, it's TW.
"I don't think anything is sheltered," Nicklaus said, of his record. Be that as it may, in the first place, the 76-year-old Nicklaus said, he must demonstrate it.
"I think Tiger has the physical and the mental capacity to have the capacity to handle that yet then he must go out and do it," he said. "We'll see. I wish him well."
(john@pages.ph)
Distributed in the Sun.Star Cebu daily paper on December 01, 2016.
Most recent issues of Sun.Star Cebu additionally accessible on your cell phones, portable workstations, and tablets. Subscribe to our computerized releases at epaper.sunstar.com.ph and get a free seven-day trial.
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