Tiger's future...cautiously optimisitc?

[sean_miller]

A chronically inured egomaniac who was miles ahead of his peers seems to be a couple more firings away from hitting rock bottom.  Not sure what Foley's slipping in Tiger's G-water these days, but he's a trainwreck. That topic?

[Shorty]

Originally Posted by iacas

Not sure how a topic titled "future" got to talking about the past, but let's stick to the topic, eh? Pretty please? Thank you.

OK -

If Tiger regains his health and competes at a high level he will probably continue playing.

If he is not competitive, and doesn't feature in the majors over the next three years, I don't see him continuing. He has too much pride for that.

Makes you wonder what he'll do with himself, doesn't it?

Consider these alternatives;

If, when Tiger had his car "accident", if it had been a real one where he could no longer play, maybe a Ben Hogan type crash, and the scandal had not broken, it would have been the biggest tragedy and "what if" story in sporting history. The assumption was that he would have won perhaps 30 majors. Certainly 25.

But, the reality is that his career as we knew it ended that night.

His biography, when he is finished will probably have as its opening paragraph "Supremely gifted and driven player who was expected to eclipse Nicklaus'  major title record.".........a bit more and then "His career was characterised, and cut short by a series of swing changes and injuries from which he never recovered"........and then something about how his reputation and public persona was ruined by scandal, causing him to lose respect from both the public, his sponsors  and his fellow players.

In generations to come, people will look at his record, look at the "Top 10 Tiger shots" on Youtube, look at the record books and notice how incredible he must have been for a period of about 5 years and then look again and marvel at how incredible Nicklaus must have been.

[laconic517]

If i didn't know better I'd swear Tiger missed his last 10 cuts the way people talk about him.  He played amazingly well at Augusta and was a balky putter away from winning the whole thing on the back nine.  He was clearly injured at the players and hasn't played since.  Why assume his career is over?  Did you not watch The Masters?

Pretty ridiculous.  People act like hes an over the hill boxer who has obviously lost his speed/coordination (Roy Jones) and its never coming back.  Give me a break.

[Zeph]

Let's wait and see when Tiger comes back, if he does.