Surprised Tiger is in the Hunt? – Not Me!

Posted by doug

April 10, 2010

Maybe it’s the curse of getting older, I’m not really sure, but not a whole heck of a lot seems to surprise me. So to see Tiger Woods 2 back at the Masters going into the weekend doesn’t really surprise me.

Why doesn’t it surprise me? because you just don’t lose talent like Tiger has. Sure there is going to be some rust but Tiger has been working with Hank Haney prior to the Master’s and working hard to get the machine working optimally again.

So he has been working on his game and he still looks like an NFL strong safety so it appears he has been hitting the gym hard, too.

Even Rory Sabbantini mentioned this prior to the Master’s tournament about Tiger:

“We all know Tiger is a great player,” Sabbatini said. “I don’t think anybody is going to be disappointed in his performance. I think he’ll come back out and play well. We all know you don’t just have a talent like that and it disappears. It’s going to be there, it’s going to return. He’s going to be playing well. It’s going to be interesting to see how his mental game is and how his head is in regards to keeping his focus.”

More importantly, he appears to be becoming more psychically whole. Recently I wrote about this in the article, Tiger Woods and and a New Kind of Power.

It’s fun to think now what Tiger might do in the future now that he is (appearing to anyway) becoming a more integrated, powerful person. A person no longer living lies, or warping the truth to himself. A Tiger who is now free.

After all, It takes ENERGY to keep all those lies and deception in check and now that (again, hopefully) that is being released we could be seeing hints of what this could do to his game. A pretty scary thought.

What is surprising is his mental focus and concentration. It would be an easy excuse I guess for anyone but Tiger. Then again, what can Tiger really control? He can only control his golf game – not the media, not the tabloids, not the fans.

I suspect Tiger playing golf again must feel really great to him. In his own element, having fun, creating 205 yard draws around trees, making clutch putts – free (maybe for the 1st time in a long, long while), in mind, body and spirit – just playing golf.