Expectations Are Tiger Woods’ Greatest Obstacle Heading into 2013 Masters

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Published: April 9, 2013

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Tiger Woods sat at the podium at Augusta National Tuesday answering question after question about his game, his preparedness and the expectations of returning to a tournament he has won four times in his illustrious career.

And he’s never looked calmer.

Woods has spent much of the last two years answering questions, but they haven’t all been about golf—at least not about his play. All that has changed, and all it took was a dominant start to 2013.



With a win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 24, Woods jumped budding superstar Rory McIlroy to regain his No. 1 standing in the world golf rankings. It was his third win in five tournaments this year, telling us what we all have long suspected—Tiger is back.

And therein lies the problem, and perhaps the biggest obstacle Woods faces as he prepares for the Masters on April 11.

Expectations are as high as they have ever been for the world’s best golfer, who, at 37, isn’t the same player we’ve always known him to be. Make no mistake, Tiger is still dominant, but his game is changing as a result of age, diminishing flexibility and a bad left knee that has plagued him in recent years.

Those factors have led to Woods developing a new swing, to which he admitted in his interview session on the Golf Channel Tuesday from Augusta.

Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel reported Woods' comments:

"I wasn't physically capable of doing it," he said. "I wasn't healthy enough. Couldn't practice, couldn't play and just wasn't able to do any of the sessions that I needed to do to improve. And I was making a swing change."



It has worked well for him this year, but Augusta National is a different animal. That’s not to say Tiger can’t be as dominant as ever this weekend, but unpredictability reigns supreme in golf’s most prestigious tournament.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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