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All Eyes Are On Tiger So Let’s Celebrate With These Great Videos

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Tiger Woods is playing back-to-back events for the first time since early 2017. Yes, he missed the cut last week but was briefly at the top of the Honda Classic leaderboard before hitting the Bear Trap. Of course Twitter salivated.

Anyway, last week Tiger tried to hit a monumental cut with a most emphatic follow thru. GolfBalled.com captured it and made a pretty funny video.

Then, this occurred this morning. Look familiar?


It’s still fascinating that live blogs during non-major events only focus on Tiger Woods and no other. Not Jordan. Not Rory. Not Dustin. I say enjoy and appreciate it while you can. And, just imagine how crazy not only golf’s but general sports’ pulses will quicken when Woods is in the hunt on Sunday afternoon. Any Sunday afternoon.

There’s also this from Alan Shipnuck’s Mailbag on Golf.com.

Does Tiger have a better chance competing with 13 clubs or 14 clubs? I’m serious. His score Thursday at Riviera certainly would have been lower without a driver. I get that he’s always been a bit wild, even in his prime. But it’s really bad right now. -@CHFounder

And that same round he was bombing his 3-wood long and straight, which made the misbehaving driver even more painful. In fact, Tiger hits his 5-wood farther than Zach Johnson hits his driver. I’d love to see Tiger be more conservative off the tee, because through the rest of the bag he looks pretty solid. But he’s not ready to concede 30-50 yards to the DJs and McIlroys of the world. Part of that is tactical; he knows it’s tough to beat guys ceding that much yardage. And part of it is vanity; Tiger is simply too proud to capitulate. So, we’re all gonna be along for this wild ride as he continues to try to figure it out.

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