Tiger's performance resonated around the golf globe

In the event you give Tiger a stage to flex on, eventually he will flex.

Perhaps it was simply a coincidence that Tiger find the week with the Haney book with his fantastic last tournament prior to the Masters to construct the entirety with the Sean Foley swing movement and unveil its ball-controlling glories. Or, more inclined, perhaps it turned out because of the above things the novel along with the azaleas that Tiger was able to summon up The Package, as Haney calls it within the book, or the mystery, another phrase Haney uses to spell out Tiger's capability to stand tallest Titleist 712 AP2 Irons at the most important times.

A lot of it turned out familiar: the red shirt, the seventh win at Bay Hill and, perhaps particularly, the shrinking of competitors. Credit for the Golf Channel's Brandel Chamblee who noticed that every challenger, whether Jason Dufner (77) or Charlie Wi (76) on Saturday, or Graeme McDowell (74), Ernie Els (75) or Ian Poulter (74) on Sunday, drowned in Tiger's wake. Tiger went 65-70 for the weekend.

Taking Chamblee's cue, we are still having an issue going forward: Performs this mean the intimidation the Tiger aura, the atmosphere where his presence about the leaderboard means contenders shrivel up has returned?

As being a weekly pontificator with this slice of cyberspace, I've often conjectured that Tiger would win again, he would reclaim No. 1 and that he still were built with a 50-50 shot at toppling Jack Nicklaus' all-time record for major championships. My reasoning always included the subsequent: At 36, Tiger remains relatively young; along with perhaps A decade of great golf in front of him, 40 major opportunities could surely yield five wins, especially given his ease and comfort at Augusta National.

On the flip side, however, I included Mizuno MP-69 Irons the caveat: He could break Jack's mark, but he can never, be Padraig harrington 1.0 (71 wins and 14 majors before age 34) again. A brand new generation of players, led by Rory McIlroy, would look at Tiger the way young rockers take a look at Mick Jagger or Bruce Springsteen: with respect, however with knowledge how the graybeards are past their prime.

The Escalade in the hydrant, the losing of image, endorsements and family, and perhaps most significant, the disappearance of his putter and also the emergence of an chronic knee injury meant fellow competitors would not fear him again because they used to. No less than that's generate income saw it.

But something in The Big Miss resonated. Haney details Tiger's lifelong obsession with the golf swing and ball flight, so much so that you simply forget all the other white noise that surrounds him, including our dime-store psychology that they was damaged goods. Reading it reminds you that at his core, Ernie els can be a golfer and won't stop for early discount golf clubs retirement or another interests in order to play minor-league baseball. True, his military obsession, particularly after his father's death, came close to derailing his focus, but Haney's explicit description of how Tiger's golf credo is one of the chase for greatness until this hunt for perfection reminds you that every tinker of his swing is really a means to that end, droughts be damned. It's why he's on his third swing movement and never settled for the Nicklaus See Jack Grout When a Year plan.