Eps 379: What You Can Learn From Tiger Woods About Slip

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The only major tournament played on the same course every year and the place where he feels most comfortable. It goes back to Woods' well-being on the grounds of Augusta National, and his ability to earn five green jackets in three decades shows that. There is no doubt that Woods's experience and knowledge of the course helped him through all four rounds and put him in the position of the winner.
It has always been part of Tiger's process to start the season slowly and work towards his game reaching its peak in the week before a major. Tiger Woods won the Masters in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. He is building on the big challenge and determining his schedule based on what allows him to play his best.
What makes Tiger Woods' return to the top at 43 even more impressive is that he is returning after well-documented back and knee problems that led many to wonder if his dominance is coming to an end.
I think his ability to beat one of the strongest and hottest fields in golf confirms that he is truly the greatest of all time. I have no problem wondering if this is the greatest sporting comeback in history we have seen. To be able to play again and not win again, I will be forever grateful for that. This is testament to the strength of Tiger Woods' mind, body and spirit, as well as his determination.
Amateur golfers can learn from his comeback to help us all play better, but the third thing you can learn from Tiger, especially at the Masters, is a great attitude on the golf course.
If you start a tournament with 40% over the first nine holes, do not give up your game plan. From 10am, hit every shot according to your game plan and make every putt, and that's the difference between a good day and a bad day at the Masters or any other tournament.
Never let your emotions get in the way and never try shots that would compromise your high score. Joe Durant proved he can play great golf even in less-than-perfect conditions when he won the Genuity Championship in Miami with a birdie on the final hole, earning an unlikely trip to the Masters.
Durant, who finished with a 270, became the first player in PGA Tour history since Woods late last summer to win the NEC Invitational and Canadian Open. He received an $810,000 first-place cheque for the Masters this week and moved to the top of the PGA Tour money list. When Woods turned professional for the first time in late 1996, he had won only one of four PPGA Tour events, and only once in his first decade as a pro.
Woods was not ready to completely dominate the professional game when he decided a swing change was needed to gain more consistency. He underwent his first swing overhaul at the age of 23, just months after the birth of his son Tiger Jr. and two years after his second child.
After a year on his new golf swing - and half - Woods has won just one PGA Tour tournament, winning a major in 2009 and winning just one major since. But it was the comeback he put together at Augusta last month that Tiger Woods could make me believe as I watched from the fourth hole on Thursday afternoon. For a moment, I forgot that I had to start my morning at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for the first time in more than a decade.
I've never forgotten that my team-mate Brooks Koepka was on the brink of making history by becoming the first man in history to win his first major championship and setting the course record.
If he makes the cut on Saturday, he will have to reach the top 70 on Sunday, meaning Tiger Woods needs a comeback.
Woods, who had practiced the front nine on Monday but skipped his scheduled back practice Wednesday because of illness, played birdies on the first and second holes and made par on the third. He missed the fairway tee shot at the 10th hole and eventually earned a double bogey. Woods added two bogeys on each of the last nine holes, but after finding a groove, he seemed a breath away from irrelevance.
After winning this year's PGA Championship, the same course that won him the PPGA title in 2000, Woods rested for the first time since his 2008 Open Championship victory while caddie Joe LaCava stalked Valhalla for his boss. He missed the cut and finished third at The Open, and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was his first start since the 38-year-old Woods returned from a microdisctomy on March 31.