{"id":20733,"date":"2017-04-01T01:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2017-04-01T01:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T01:54:15","slug":"pulling-for-a-comeback-from-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20733","title":{"rendered":"Pulling for a comeback from Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AAjfRu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20734\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AAjfRu-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AAjfRu-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/AAjfRu.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Call me strange.<\/p>\n<p>But I do enjoy watching pro golf on TV more than pro football. Pro basketball, too, except when the Portland Trail Blazers are on the tube.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, I keep hoping for a comeback from a young man named Eldrick &#8220;Tiger&#8221; Woods, who announced this week he is going to skip next week&#8217;s Masters Tournament, an event he has won four times.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger&#8217;s back is acting up. He can&#8217;t rehab it sufficiently to allow him to play at a competitive level. So, he&#8217;s sitting out an event that the great Jack Nicklaus once said he&#8217;d win more Masters green jackets than he and the late Arnold Palmer did <em>combined;<\/em> Jack won six of &#8217;em, Arnie won four.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure why I remain drawn to Tiger Woods, the golfer. Tiger the husband turned out to be pretty much of a dirt bag, as he cheated wildly on his gorgeous then-wife, Elin.<\/p>\n<p>It pretty much went to hell after that for Tiger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/golf\/tiger-woods-will-miss-the-2017-masters-as-recovery-continues\/ar-BBz8njs?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">Tiger remains on the injured list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He hurt his back. His major championship total stands at 14; he says he wants to surpass the 18 majors owned by Nicklaus.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what pro golf&#8217;s TV ratings have done since Tiger hit the skids. I&#8217;m guessing many TV watchers are like me: They&#8217;d prefer to watch Tiger on the course than nearly anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>I want the young man to make a full comeback. Do I care if he breaks the all-time major championship record? Not really. Jack Nicklaus, by all rights, should stand as the greatest of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods belongs on the golf course &#8212; and on my TV screen.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me strange. But I do enjoy watching pro golf on TV more than pro football. Pro basketball, too, except when the Portland Trail Blazers are on the tube. Accordingly, I keep hoping for a comeback from a young man named Eldrick &#8220;Tiger&#8221; Woods, who announced this week he is going to skip next week&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pulling for a comeback from Tiger<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6599,2387,2952,3584,4804],"class_list":["post-20733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-masters-tournament","tag-pga","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20736,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20733\/revisions\/20736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}