{"id":26611,"date":"2017-12-01T02:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26611"},"modified":"2017-12-01T02:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:48:57","slug":"is-tiger-back-well-lets-hold-our-breath-and-hope-its-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26611","title":{"rendered":"Is Tiger back? Well, let’s hold our breath and hope it’s so"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One round of golf on a relatively tame layout does not constitute a comeback for the greatest golfer of his generation.<\/p>\n

But I am glad to see that Tiger Woods shot a 69 today at the Hero World Challenge tournament in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n

It’s been more than 300 days since Woods played competitive golf. The game has flourished nicely without him. However, for many golf fans — such as yours truly — professional golf has been lacking a bit of the star power that Woods brings to any tournament he enters.<\/p>\n

He has gone through four back surgeries. He sought to come back once, perhaps prematurely. He couldn’t swing a golf club without experiencing great pain.<\/p>\n

But here we are. Woods played a solid round of golf today.<\/p>\n

I hope he can string three more good rounds in the sport he dominated during the late 1990s and the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

I get that no one is bigger than the sport at which he or she excels.<\/p>\n

My hope, though, is that Tiger Woods can come back and give the game some of the pizzazz he brings to it every time he tees it up.<\/p>\n\n

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One round of golf on a relatively tame layout does not constitute a comeback for the greatest golfer of his generation. But I am glad to see that Tiger Woods shot a 69 today at the Hero World Challenge tournament in The Bahamas. It’s been more than 300 days since Woods played competitive golf. The … Continue reading Is Tiger back? Well, let’s hold our breath and hope it’s so<\/span> →<\/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":[3584,7446,4804],"class_list":["post-26611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-pga","tag-professional-golf","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611","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=26611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26613,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions\/26613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}