Just Another Week in the Tumultuous World of Tiger Woods

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Published: August 30, 2014

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The first 13 years of Tiger Woods' career ran like clockwork.

Woods would show up for practice rounds at the crack of down.

He employed the same caddie for 12 years and switched swing coaches just once between his junior golf days and his six-win 2009 season.

Woods was not victorious every time he teed it up. In fact, even at his best he was winning only one out of every three events he attended. But more often than not he was going to be in contention on Sunday afternoon, which was, of course, a dream scenario for the fans, media and television network executives.

Woods sunk virtually every big putt he saw between 1997 and 2008, to the point where NBC’s Dan Hicks had nothing to say other than “expect anything different” when Woods sunk a 15-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the 2008 U.S. Open to force an 18-hole playoff with Rocco Mediate.

He was voted by his peers as the PGA Tour Player of the Year nine times in a 12-year span between 1997 and 2008.

Whatever might have been happening elsewhere in the world of golf, there was one constant on the course—Woods was the dominant alpha dog in the game.

Woods would swoop in to an event, dominate the field and fly off in his private jet not to be heard from again until he decided to return to the course and once again thrash his competition.

For 13 years the only drama produced by Woods occurred on the golf course.

Fast forward five years and throw in a fire hydrant, sex scandal and the very public dissolution of his marriage, and the only drama produced by Woods these days comes in the form of injury reports, tournament withdrawals, late night television appearances, ice bucket challenges and swing coach changes.

Instead of creating roars at Augusta National with incredible power and miraculous displays of short game precision, the only roars Woods created at Augusta this year came a...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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