Go get ’em Tiger

Go get ’em Tiger

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Robert O'Hara

NY POST – Tiger Woods is now prowling the Big Apple.

Just days after finalizing his divorce, Woods moved into a downtown Manhattan apartment during the weekend, when he also was playing in a tournament just across the Hudson River in Paramus, NJ.

It seems that Tiger Woods is better fit to be single. Last weekend at Barclay’s, in his first appearance since his official divorce, Tiger Woods shot a 65, his best round of the year. He finished in 12^th, his best finish since June.

Is it coincidence that since his marital spat in December of 2009 his game and performance has declined drastically? He did not play at all in the beginning of the year. But in April he returned to golf at the Masters and finished in 4^th place. It seemed that his separation and time away from the game might have distracted him only a little. But that was before the “D” word. About a week after the Masters his wife Elin filed for divorce, and since then he has regularly shot in the 70’s and finished outside of the top ten. That is, until last weekend.

Divorce has not been the only thing to rattle Tiger. Apparently, marriage was not good for his game either. In 2004, the year he got married, Tiger had only 1 win and 0 majors in 19 events. Compare that to 39 wins and 8 majors in the eight years prior.

After illness or injury, traditionally the most well known distractions in life are divorce, pregnancy, moving, and getting married, in that order. Therefore, Tiger’s struggles are understandable. However, I don’t suspect that moving into a $25 million penthouse in Manhattan is an attempt to settle down. It does not sound like the best residence for a modern day Wilt Chamberlain.

My advice to anyone and everything professional golf is “watch out.” If my quasi-mathematical theory on Tiger’s scorecard and relationship status is even half-way applicable, then he is set to go on a tear the likes of which to this date are unheard of.

My advice to Tiger is to forget about Elin and to focus on his kids and golf. Date. Have fun. But be careful. There are a lot of crazy chicks in the City. You don’t want to miss the 2011 Masters with Hepatitis C. And you don’t want to wind up like Lawrence Taylor, or even worse, Steven McNair.