For a long time, the golfing world was divided into two sections, one was that of Tiger Woods and the other included the rest of the golfers in the world. But now, there is a new normalcy in the world of golf and this huge difference between the first global superstar of golf and the others have almost come to be nonexistent. As a matter of fact, it would not be wrong in any way to state that Woods is now the rest of the field. He is just like any other golfer who is out there on the course, trying to earn his way to the top and not have a direct ticket there. He is no different that Davis Love III, Bryce Molder or even Y.E. Yang. It wouldn’t be wrong to refer to him as Davis Love IV as well.
There are days when he might win, there are days when he might miss the cut and then again, there are days that Tiger Woods just doesn’t know what he is doing at all. At the Players Championship, Woods finished with a 74, leaving him a full nine shots behind the leader Ian Poulter. What was more surprising was that Woods almost accepted the result at the end of the day as just one of those days.
Over the last couple of years, there have been so many of ‘those days’ that it is almost shocking to us that this was the man who once turned everything he touched into gold. So, the question that comes to be raised at this time is whether Tiger Woods ever be the unstoppable force that he once was before.
His struggles seem to suggest that the man is well past his best and with so many distractions, it would be very hard for him to reclaim his crown.