Has Time Run Out for Tiger Woods After Missing 2014 Masters with Back Injury?

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Published: April 2, 2014

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The clock ticks. No one wants to hear the sound. Few pay attention, particularly athletes. They believe they’ll always be young until suddenly they’re not.

A golfer’s career is long, longer than careers in other sports, but it is not forever. The opportunities get fewer as the months and the tournaments go by.

Six years ago, Tiger Woods, even with a serious knee injury, won the U.S. Open, his 14th major championship. He was 32.

Surely, we thought he would take at least another major or two, maybe even the four needed to tie the great Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18.

We were wrong. Tiger hasn’t won any.



Now, he misses his first Masters since turning pro in the autumn of 1996, having undergone back surgery Monday for a pinched nerve, as announced on his website.

Tiger has been remarkable, yet that was then, and this is now. It is not unreasonable to suggest Woods’ time as a major winner is over.

“I think there are windows,” Tom Watson said before the 2013 Senior PGA Championship at Bellerive CC in St. Louis (via PGA.com). “You look at the great champions, with a couple exceptions, like maybe Nicklaus, and maybe Woods and (Sam) Snead, they all had their really productive years in a short period of time. Six or seven, eight years like that.”

Woods won majors over 11 years, from that 1997 Masters when, as a rookie, he rewrote history to that ’08 Open at Torrey Pines. However, for nearly six years, he's come up empty.

He had his chances, but unlike his earlier days, he couldn’t finish. In fact, in the 2012 U.S. Open at San Francisco’s Olympic Club, tied for the lead halfway, Woods finished the final 36 holes eight over par to tie for 21st.

A year ago, Woods had a shot ricochet off a flagstick into the pond at 15 during the second round of the Masters and never qui...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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