Tiger Woods comeback story

This will always be the greatest comeback in Golf.



16 months earlier, Ben Hogan and his wife were hit head on by a greyhound bus. They were lucky to even survive, Hogan especially as he needed surgery for blood clotting. He was a shy, taciturn, reserved player who kept himself to himself and as a result wasn't popular at all among the galleries nor with his fellow competitors. When he was 10 years old his father, suffering from depression, shot himself at point blank range in the chest. Hogan saw it and it deeply affected him which resulted in his quiet nature and stand-off personality. The accident changed everything and he played the 1950 US Open in constant pain to the delight of the galleries. These were the days of 36 holes completed on the last day and that win was the greatest comeback in Golf. He would win 3 majors in 1953 (9 overall) and is regarded as one of the finest ball strikers the game has known and credited with the player who "invented practice". That bridge they cross over at Augusta to get to the 12th green is named in his honour.

Woods is a sociopath, the product of a bullying arsehole of a father, and his fall from grace was entirely self-inflicted. He was raised to win and he won plenty. Read up about his dad and it's no surprise Wood's was a bit mentally screwed up. He was destined to become a sort of golfing messiah according to his dad. "Tiger will do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity" Eh?

He raised the bar for playing standards in the game, raised the profile among the masses for the best game in the world which was always a bastion for elitism. What irked people was that on the one hand he was presenting himself as the devoted family man, the reality was he was a serial philanderer and many of his sponsors dropped him instantly when the details emerged. Nobody had a problem with him banging cocktail waitresses, they had a problem with the hypocrisy of it with many feeling hoodwinked and none too happy about it. Essentially, you can't extol the virtues of married life and kids when you're concurrently sowing your wild oats with hookers. He lost his mental edge with the field.

After his philandering father died in 2006, he injured himself with notions of becoming a Navy Seal to the horror of his support team. He was obsessed with the military. He got the best treatment money can buy to get healthy again and slowly emerged back into the fold, chastened but more than welcome as his presence in the game generates serious revenue. The guy knows Augusta National like the back of his hand and I think what won it for him was his play off the tee. He finds more fairways now instead of trying to take the cover off the ball. It's not a big shock that he won and it's not the greatest comeback ever. So in summation, he's a helluva golfer but don't buy into the media hype about "the greatest comeback ever".

Golf, not really a sport tho is it ?
Bunch of fat oul fellas playing it, driving around in carts - they're hardly fit like tennis or football players are they ?

Golf and Darts are the same category, games - not sports.

And a terrible waste of space aswell, all that acres and acres of space so some fat rich old tosser can whack a ball about, imagine the amount of proper sports facilities that could fit into a golf course ?

TomSweeney wrote: »

Thank you.
When a fat 60 year old can win a tennis grand slam , let us know ...

When a fat 60 year old wins a golf major that might make some sense

TomasMacR wrote: »

Personally in this age of equality, feminism and vagina power stuff. I attribute an awful lot of his early success to all those brazzers he was banging. Credit where its due. He was unstoppable when he was at that craic and his game seemed to go to sh*t when he had to knock it on the head, which wasn't by his own volition. He'd have at least another 3-4 majors to his name if his coaches could've smuggled in van loads of skanks for him to be pummelling pre tournament. Last nights miracle can only be attributed to one thing, the durty f*ckers back at it. Balls deep at this second in preparation for the Wells Fargo Championship next month.

Could very well be back to the old tried and tested, consistency and repetition of the pre-shot (golf) routine is the cornerstone of any good golfer.

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

Sorry this is ridiculous. He's not the only good sportsman in the world. Lionel Messi, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Lebron James, Tom Brady etc. All excel in their professions too.

He's been a very good golfer for a the past year or so and was one of the favourites prior to the tournament started and so some of the hyperbole is nauseating.

tiger was 14/1 i had a tenner on him : )

This is the best comeback story of ALL TIME

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Really?
He's standing still
No verbal intimidation from the crowd or opponents
He's got a caddie to hand him the ideal club
He's practiced on the course a good few times

Jeez, sounds like a doddle. Must give it a go.

Hoboo wrote: »

It wouldn't be OTT at all if he won any event. No one thought he'd ever play again, let alone compete. The bloke could barely walk at one stage.

I agree it looked like he was gone.
It would be the equivalent of Michael Schmacher coming back and winning the Monaco grand prix.

Nike are already making a killing on the adverts though.



The cynic in me says the film 'movie' is not far around the corner. Will Smith as Tiger Woods?

The fall from grace and turnaround has made Woods profile sky rocket.

It is 'The Mighty Ducks' all over again



With a good dollop of Happy Gilmore: