For Woods, it’s deja vu all over again
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- May
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Let’s see, Tiger Woods hasn’t played since the Masters, has pulled out of the Memorial, and won’t play again until the first round of the U.S. Open.
Sound familiar?
It should. It was only two years ago that Woods’ schedule followed the same pattern—although as opposed to this year, when Woods has been sidelined because of arthroscopic knee surgery, in 2006 he was mourning the death of his father that May.
One event took a severe emotional toll on the game’s No. 1. Another has taken a physical one. But the common thread is Woods is again going to be thrown directly into lion’s den that is a U.S. Open. And if his experience at Winged Foot in ‘06 is any indication—when he missed the cut in a major for the first and only time as a professional—he has reason to be leery.
Not that Woods sees it that way. Because rather than dwell on his sour experience at Winged Foot, Woods in a press conference yesterday chose to reference a sequence in 2003, when he had a similar procedure done on his knee, missed the early part of the season, then came back to win the first tournament he entered. That tournament was the Buick Invitational. The course was Torrey Pines, site of next month’s Open.
“I know what it takes to win a tournament coming back off after having a procedure done, and it is just a matter of being prepared, getting all my practice time in, making sure my shots are how I want them, trying to understand what my misses might be,” Woods said.
Maybe it’s all selective memory on Woods’ part. But if that’s part of his plan, more power to him.
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