{"id":51138,"date":"2022-04-09T00:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51138"},"modified":"2022-04-09T00:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T00:02:39","slug":"stand-tall-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51138","title":{"rendered":"Stand tall, 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 class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tiger-woods-2009-us-open.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36614\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tiger-woods-2009-us-open-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tiger-woods-2009-us-open-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tiger-woods-2009-us-open-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tiger-woods-2009-us-open-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Whether he slips on The Masters\u2019s green jacket that goes to the winner of the golf tournament is irrelevant to what I want to say about Eldrick \u201cTiger\u201d Woods.<\/p>\n<p>The man has \u201cwon\u201d a major battle already by returning to play competitive golf after suffering a grievous leg injury in a horrific motor vehicle crash. It occurred a little more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods could have lost his right leg. It was shattered in many places. Surgeons fitted Woods with metal pins and rods to keep his leg. A year later, Woods has completed two rounds of The Masters; he made the cut and will play for the green jacket over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to predict he will win. Indeed, Tiger Woods likely won\u2019t walk away wearing that coveted jacket \u2026 although I am not going to bet my retirement account on it.<\/p>\n<p>My point is that even a fierce competitor such as Tiger Woods must feel a good bit of satisfaction that he is able to compete at a high level, given what he has endured for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>I have noted already that Tiger Woods does not consider himself to be \u201cbigger than the game\u201d of golf. I can challenge that just a bit. His mere presence in The Masters field has generated fan interest that has been lacking because of his absence from the game he has dominated for the past quarter century.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. Tiger is\u00a0<em>at least as big<\/em>\u00a0as the game. He has proven himself \u2014 once again this week \u2014 to be a winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Whether he slips on The Masters\u2019s green jacket that goes to the winner of the golf tournament is irrelevant to what I want to say about Eldrick \u201cTiger\u201d Woods. The man has \u201cwon\u201d a major battle already by returning to play competitive golf after suffering a grievous leg injury in a horrific motor vehicle crash. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stand tall, 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":[9916,3585,4804],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-masters","tag-pga-tour","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138","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=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51139,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions\/51139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}