GMac On Tiger: “He’s lost that sort of force field of invincibility around him"
/The Tiger Woods aura question and the role it played in making playing partners wilt will long be discussed, but if nothing else Tiger has some nice bulletin board material from this Brian Wacker piece at PGATour.com.
And while tour execs might not like the hometown paper talking about the lost aura of their number one star, they can at least take heart that the comments are not all about the awful new PGA Tour leaderboard!
The strongest comment was this from Graeme McDowell, though Adam Scott and Billy Horschel are also quoted.
“He’s lost that sort of force field of invincibility around him,” said Graeme McDowell. “The aura is not as strong. He's still Tiger Woods, still the greatest player ever in my opinion.
“I don't remember the first time I played with him but there was a real ‘wow’ factor. He was playing a different sport than me. But guys get older, stuff happens.”
**McDowell took to Twitter to clarify the setting and answers, Will Gray reports.
The Tweets:
I spent 90% of my press conference last week at Bay Hill being asked questions about Tiger, speculating about where his game is right now...
— Graeme McDowell (@Graeme_McDowell) March 27, 2014...Many of my quotes have been taken out of context and spun quite negatively. It's hard for me to comment on Tiger in the early 2000s....
— Graeme McDowell (@Graeme_McDowell) March 27, 2014...I can only say that he has raised the bar so much in the sport globally and players are so much better equipped to win these days...
— Graeme McDowell (@Graeme_McDowell) March 27, 2014...He seems more beatable nowadays simply because the players around him are better and have more belief thanks to Tiger moving the needle.
— Graeme McDowell (@Graeme_McDowell) March 27, 2014
