Will Tiger Woods Salvage His Season After Vintage Round 1 at Wyndham?

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Published: August 21, 2015

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It’s not really about the season, he said a week ago. It’s about the year. Tiger Woods had his own judgmental way of looking at the past several months, which were not at all pleasant, and at the future.

So many of us saw his result in the PGA Championship a few days ago, and in the U.S. and British Opens—missed cuts all—and said it’s over for 2015.

Not to Woods. It’s never over.

A season? From last October to this October, in the PGA Tour’s non-calendar way of packing together a schedule. A year? Whatever. Woods salvaged it Thursday and made us remember what he used to do and what he still could do.

Woods carded a 64, his best competitive round since December 2013. He did was at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, which is not in the same category of difficulty or prestige as Chambers Bay or Whistling Straits. It also came under the rules allowable on a course flooded by rain: lift, clean and place. But it still was six-under par by a golfer who had recently missed fairways, putts and cuts in the last three majors.



We declared him a relic at age 39. We suggested he should take off the rest of 2015—whether that was a season or a year.

Jaime Diaz, the erudite and perceptive editor of Golf Digest, who has covered Woods since he was a teenager, suggested to me that Woods needed to get away from the game for a while. Woods ignored our advice. Smartly.

“I have plenty of golf to be played,” he said last Saturday, after he missed the cut at Whistling Straits. “The confidence is growing quickly. To have the control that I need to have going forward, it’s starting to come back.”

They say in sports that greatness is forever. A man or woman may not play at 39 as he or she did at 29, but the inherent skill remains. Pitchers have bad years—or seasons. Same with quarterba...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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