Tiger Woods: How Close Is He to Regaining His Greatness in 2012?

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Published: June 29, 2012

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This is all Tiger Woods' fault.

When he was dominating the world of professional golf—winning 14 major championships and holding the top spot in the Official World Golf Ranking for a record 281 consecutive weeks—he set the bar so high not even he would be able to reach it again.

Or so it would appear that way. You know, since the fall.

But the expectations are still there—from the fans, certainly from the media and from Tiger himself.

Tiger is expected to win every golf tournament he enters. He's expected to hit every fairway and every green, and he's expected to make every putt. And on those rare occasions when he doesn't meet the expectations, he's counted on to pull off the impossible shot.

Because he's Tiger Woods—once great, always great.

The truth of the matter is that Tiger is not invincible. He is not super-human, although there have been times, on the golf course throughout his illustrious career, when he has appeared that way.

That's not the case in 2012. Tiger isn't playing the best golf of his career, but he is having, arguably, a Player of the Year-type performance.

Along with Hunter Mahan and Jason Dufner, Tiger has the most PGA Tour victories with two. He has led the tour in Total Driving for most of the year. He's second in Scoring Average and Ball Striking. And his Total Putting rank has jumped to No. 15 after a shaky start.



So, what's wrong with this picture? Not a whole lot if you're anyone other than Tiger Woods.

After several years of fine-tuning a swing change with his current coach, Sean Foley, Tiger is closer than ever to returning to the greatness he has, and always will be, so well known for.

One obvious flaw in an otherwise outstanding arsenal of shots that Tiger currently possesses is his wedge play. Take a look at his distance stats. On approaches from 50-75 yards, Tiger is only gett...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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