Dazed and Confused

Another tournament, another question, another controversy. This has been the ongoing timeline of what the current state that Tiger Woods has with his golf game. As you may have heard, after shooting a front-nine 42 earlier on Thursday last week, Tiger decided to withdraw from THE PLAYERS, citing his achilles and leg injuries as the reason. Many noted that he was also clearly limping throughout the day, so he chose to not make a bad situation any worse. As a Tiger fan, this only makes me feel worse for the guy. Karma obviously isn't done with him yet, as he continues to have this run of bad luck with the injuries and sub-par play. This can only raise more questions of "Is Tiger Done?" and "When will he return?" and most importantly: "When will he, if ever, win again?". Although these questions have been continually been asked ever since post-Thanksgiving of 2009, this WD at THE PLAYERS will only bring more of questions like these at possibly an alarming rate. It's defintely just going to get worse.

Even though many haters continue to relish the "cheetah's" demise, a majority of the golf contingent are rooting for him now. The math is simple; Tiger+Tiger Win+Big Tournament= $$$. The PGA Tour and the television networks need the guy. Their ratings go up, and their finances increase. The fans also become happier because the man is such a polarizing figure it creates a lot of buzz whenever he can do something like that. This recent setback can only hurt the TOUR even more.

I think the thing we all have to do now is just stay patient for the man. He needs to get healthy and not rush this injury, or we will be back to square one quickly. If we give Mr. Woods patience, space, and time to get his life, golf game, and health back together, I think he can return back to his winning ways. If he can do that, the PGA Tour will soar, because not only will he be back to normal, but since we have a huge amount of players playing great golf right now, we can see how they all stack up with one another. But for now, we just can only hope and believe as golf fans. The greatest golfer of our generation, at one point heralded as our Superman, has at some point been stuck with Kryptonite for about a year and a half now. Faith is needed for our fallen star to get back to normal, and its needed now more than ever. There's no doubt that he still has the potential to bring his game back to form for good. But until then, get well soon, Tiger Woods. I'll be rooting for you like never before.