Tiger Woods - Jesse Bashaw

Everyone knows the inside story about Tiger Woods, and his “issues” at home. He admitted to being unfaithful to his wife after having multiple affairs. This has put a lot of pressure on him to turn his life around and put his mistakes behind him and move on. The question everyone in the golf world is now asking is “Can Tiger come back?” The Masters was last week and Tigers performance could’ve been better.
This was his first tournament in almost 4 months, and all eyes were on him. Tiger has been known to bounce back after events in his life that people thought he wouldn’t recover from. The big one that stands out was the death of his father, Earl Woods. Not a lot of people thought Tiger could handle that and still maintain his status as the best golfer in the world. He came back by winning the British Open just two months later.

Tiger came to Augusta wanting to win. He ended up tied for forth at 11 under par, only five shots behind the winner, Phil Mickelson who shot 16 under. If you looked at the standings on Sunday you would see Tiger in forth, very close to the lead. If you watched how he played, you wouldn’t expect that outcome. Tiger didn’t look like himself, his swing was rough and off tempo. His consistency wasn’t there and his frustration made things worse. He couldn’t put his tee shots in the fairway, and his putting lacked. Tiger put up scores of 68, 70, 70 and 69. Tiger put up great scores that kept him in the hunt, but the way he got them wasn’t tiger-like. A lot of people expected to see the typical amazing tiger that everybody loves to watch, but that wasn’t what we got.