Tiger Woods faded terribly today at Pebble Beach. I didn’t cover the final round — in fact, I watched it on TV at home. But this is what I saw.
Woods can make the shots. Woods is a good player. Woods has lost his confidence. It is strange to write he’s lost his confidence when he used to be the most confident athlete alive. But he could not stand up to the pressure of the final round today and he sure could not stand up to Phil Mickelson.
Woods said his putts were not going in. He doesn’t understand. They didn’t go in because he didn’t know how to make them go in when everything depended on it. You could almost say he choked.
CBS showed many shots of Mickelson’s wife Amy cheering for him and of Mickelson hugging his caddie. The message was clear. Mickelson appears to have a stable home life and a stable relationship with his caddie. Woods had a horrendous home life and he tends to dump caddies. CBS was saying stability promotes good gulf, therefore Mickelson buried Woods. I don’t know if that line of reasoning is correct, but it is something to think about.
Stan
When Woods had a stable…it brought him stability. So much for chinese cookie philosophy.
February 12th, 2012 4:25 pm
Ousted from the Zone
Where’s the Jeremy Lin column?
February 12th, 2012 5:27 pm
Johnc113
He was in position to win starting the day. Never saw this coming…it was ugly and I agree that it was his confidence not his mechanics that seemed to evaporate under the pressure.
February 12th, 2012 5:43 pm
Tiburon Dave
15th…sheesh…
Nothing waiting for him after the press tent other than a bottle of scotch and speed dial to an escort service.
All the money…all the talent…and the only ones who care are the people who can still make a buck off him…
What a mess…
February 12th, 2012 5:52 pm
Dennis
He should have never gone to sex therapy. He hasn’t been the same since.
February 12th, 2012 10:32 pm