While Lee Westwood was carrying his hold on The Players Championship loosened by Tim Clark on Sunday, majority of the courtesy at Sawgrass was being focused on the health - mental and earthy - of one Tiger Woods.
When he returned to the diversion after five months in outcast and accomplished next to fourth at the Masters last month, Woods gave the sense that whilst his hold up was in misunderstanding afar from the course, he would have couple of problems returning to his main globe of influence. It was 0 some-more than an illusion.
In his initial eventuality after the Masters, the universe No 1 longed for the cut by miles at the Quail Hollow Championship and plumbed new inlet on Sunday when he withdrew from The Players with a neck damage 7 holes in to his round. It goes to show how far his batch has depressed that the headlines was greeted with a good understanding of scepticism.
Too mostly now, what Woods says one day, he contradicts on another. Asked progressing in the week if he had any health issues, he replied. No, zero. (Im) positively 100 per cent. After withdrawing, he pronounced he had been carrying difficulty with his neck given prior to the Masters and could not fool around by the suffering any more. He had played dreadfully all week, but who could discuss it if it was due to a earthy or a mental problem? In reality, it was probably a hold of both.
The genuine subject right away is how prolonged will he be away? He is approaching to urge his pretension at the Memorial contest in 3 weeks and afterwards go on to the US Open at Pebble Beach dual weeks later. It was there in 2000 when he took the diversion to a new turn by violence the margin by a towering fifteen strokes.
But to declare him on foot the fairways at benefaction or responding questions in the press room is to see a good hold up probably brought to his knees. His golf and his good dialog with the fans is definitely joyless. He looks waste and exposed - and that is sad.
It was at Sawgrass in Feb that he hinted that he competence not fool around again this year whilst he attempted to sort out his in isolation hold up and a matrimony he had thrown on to the rocks. In this mood, and with divorce from Elin, his wife, clearly imminent, he should recur his preference to lapse to the diversion so soon. As for the Ryder Cup compare at Celtic Manor, in October, it is tough to suppose him wishing to fool around for the group - quite as he has small love for the hooplah surrounding the match.
Woods is seemingly in no state to fool around and has nowhere to censor on the course. He stays at No.1 in the universe but could lose his on all sides to Phil Mickelson at the Memorial. In fact, it looks roughly certain.
What Woods has detected in the 3 tournaments he has played given returning to the diversion is that the fan bottom is no longer as adoring as it once was. He had been treated with colour as if he were super-human, but no longer. He is human and hugely injured after all. And between his low points has to be the impulse on Saturday when a immature child announced out to Woods as Mickelson was signing autographs: Tiger, contend so prolonged to No 1. Kiss it goodbye.
He got heckled by a 7-year-old? pronounced Paul Goydos, one of the American Ryder Cup vice-captains. Thats brutal.
And there is no arguing with that.
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