After the Masters, What’s Next for Tiger Woods?

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Published: April 6, 2010

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Tiger Woods played his first public practice round yesterday, he sat and answered question from the media for 34 minutes, and he will compete in this week’s Masters.

That is all known fact.

Woods’ future, on the other hand, is a sea of uncertainty.

Win, contend, miss the cut, or withdraw, what will be next for Woods after the conclusion of the 2010 Masters?

Will he return to his normal schedule, which would likely mean an appearance at the Quail Hollow Championship in three weeks? Will he take things one week at a time as he attempts to repair his marriage? Or will he turn into a modern day version of the post-accident Ben Hogan?

In 1949, right smack in the middle of his prime, Hogan was involved in a head-on collision with a Greyhound bus while driving with his wife, Valerie, just east of Van Horn, Texas.

Hogan, who was 36 at the time of his accident, suffered a double-fracture of the pelvis, a fractured collar bone, a left ankle fracture, a chipped rib, and near-fatal blood clots.  He was also left with lifelong circulation problems that made getting out of bed a challenge, let alone walking 72 holes of golf.

From 1949 through the remainder of his career, Hogan played a very limited schedule.

This was partly due to his injuries and partly due to the fact that Hogan became increasingly reclusive during the second half of his career.

If you think Woods is secretive and reclusive, well, then you probably don’t know too much about Ben Hogan.

Hogan was the Wizard of Oz. Only very few people ever saw the man behind the curtain, and it’s debatable whether anyone truly knew the man behind the curtain.

There were some years where Hogan played the U.S. Open in July and didn’t reappear until the following April at the Masters.

Aside from the Masters and the U.S. Open, Hogan played very few other go...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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