Tiger Woods: I Found Myself Rooting for Him Again

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Published: December 6, 2010

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I found myself rooting for Tiger this past weekend.

This despite his gargantuan moral lapse and fall from grace, despite his year of tantrums and club-throwing (which, if it was a contest unto itself, he would lead the pack), despite a perpetual scowl that turned him from the biggest winner to the biggest whiner on the PGA circuit.

Nope, I found myself cheering for Tiger because it actually looked like he could win again.

And, when he didn't, when Graeme McDowell, the British Bomber with iced tea in his veins, putted his way to victory in OT, I still was rooting for him.

Not a pity-root, this, but a genuine, I wanna-see-Tiger-win-this-thing root.

Why? Because he actually played some great golf. He didn't scowl much and he only banged his club a couple of times. 

Why? Because he was playing against a great competitor and the hottest player in the game right now, one of the newbies who took Tiger's time off to rise to the top of his own game, and it created a really good golf match...one of the best ones we have seen in...well, in over a year.

I am not golf-technician enough to know how Tiger has reshaped his game to become competitive again.

But, the shot he made in regulation on the 18th, a mid-iron beauty that landed a few feet from the cup just when he absolutely needed it, reminded me of days gone past when Tiger made those shots with fearful regularity. When the guy he was playing against wilted as Tiger toughened and made the shot he had to make to win.

Only this time it was McDowell, sitting 15+ feet away with a putt he had to make to stay in the game, rolling in a smooth little birdie forcing Tiger to make his putt to go to sudden death.

As he and McDowell left for the first hole of extended play, I actually felt as if Tiger could pull out another a win (I won't go into how he let McDowell get back into the game with his ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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