{"id":28333,"date":"2018-02-25T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28333"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:05:38","slug":"maybe-really-bigger-game-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28333","title":{"rendered":"Maybe he really is bigger than the game &#8230; maybe"},"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\/2018\/02\/Tiger-Woods-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28334\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tiger-Woods-2016-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tiger-Woods-2016-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tiger-Woods-2016-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tiger-Woods-2016-1024x675.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He wouldn&#8217;t actually admit it out loud, but I&#8217;m beginning to think Tiger Woods just might be bigger than the game he plays for a living.<\/p>\n<p>He is playing well in a PGA golf tournament this week. The CBS Sports broadcasting crew can&#8217;t stop talking enough about Woods. He isn&#8217;t in the lead as I write this brief blog post but he&#8217;s lurking not too far behind the tournament leaders.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, I&#8217;ll admit to liking to watch pro golf on TV <em>more<\/em> when Tiger is playing, let alone when he&#8217;s in contention to win.<\/p>\n<p>Woods has been on the shelf for most of the past three seasons. He&#8217;s had those injuries. He&#8217;s had several back surgeries. Woods tried to come back a time or three, but then went back to the physical therapist for more PT and rehab.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, Woods had that rather remarkable scandal involving his serial philandering.<\/p>\n<p>That was then. Woods is back in the game. I&#8217;ve said before I am seriously pulling for Woods to come all the way back. I want him to return to something resembling the all-world form he displayed from 1997 until about 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Golf is a great game to watch. Really! I like watching it on TV.<\/p>\n<p>I like it a bit more when Tiger Woods is in the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean Tiger is &#8220;bigger than the game&#8221;? Maybe it does.<\/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>He wouldn&#8217;t actually admit it out loud, but I&#8217;m beginning to think Tiger Woods just might be bigger than the game he plays for a living. He is playing well in a PGA golf tournament this week. The CBS Sports broadcasting crew can&#8217;t stop talking enough about Woods. He isn&#8217;t in the lead as I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maybe he really is bigger than the game &#8230; maybe<\/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":[7619,7446,4804],"class_list":["post-28333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-pga-tournament","tag-professional-golf","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333","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=28333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28335,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28333\/revisions\/28335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}