What Will Tiger Do Next? (And A Poll Too)
/He's hugging, he's "rocking" to hip-hop, he's playing the Par-3 contest with his kids, he's not chunking, sculling or chunk-sculling wedges...he's back baby!
Actually, round one of the 2015 Masters will shift to full attention to Tiger Woods and for a day, at least, from the pre-tournament favorites Watson, Spieth, Day, Walker and Johnson.
Without the killer instinct that made him so superior, what will happen? Robert Lusetich explores this topic in a FoxSports.com column.
Tiger Woods was a killer, too. The deadliest of assassins when the tournament was on the line. And stone cold.
Woods once famously walked through the Augusta National clubhouse getting ready for a Sunday Masters run and was so enveloped in his cocoon that he ignored even the goodwill wishes of his mother and Nike chairman Phil Knight.
Emotional, nostalgic, softer and kinder; safe to say, this is a different — and probably psychologically healthier — Tiger.
Psychology/schmycology. How's his short game?
Gene Wojciechowski tries to wrap his head around the new Tiger in this ESPN.com piece.
He yukked it up Monday. He even yukked it up Tuesday at the news conference. He wasn't Chris Rock/Louis C.K. funny, but he tried. And in the past, Woods hadn't tried much. Not with his peers, and certainly not with the media.
He sounded slightly different. He acted slightly different. It was a matter of degrees, but degrees count for something.
Maybe it's his age -- 39 and counting. Maybe it's how injuries (back surgery) and -- how did Rory McIlroy put it earlier in the day? -- the fickleness of golf. It can humiliate the very best, including Woods.
Has he been humbled? Has he seen the light? What will he shoot when the tournament light goes on?
