He finally did earlier this week having a win with the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. It was his 72nd PGA Tour win (he's now one behind Jack Nicklaus and ten behind Sam Snead for the all-time wins list). It brought his on-course career earnings number to $109,596,678, as outlined by Darren Rovell. Though Tiger seemed happy, he gave off a vibe of satisfied relief in lieu of pure ecstatic joy.
But maybe more essential, the win stop that which you may appreciate everyday as Phase Among Tiger's career. That phase, of course, carried the glory of winning 14 major by age 32 and having the discount golf clubs world's highest paid athlete at $75 million annually, with the Nike and Gatorade contracts, among others. It also carried the autumn from grace, the seedy indiscretions coupled with possible career-crippling injuries.
Hank Haney
s new book, The Big Miss, may someday be viewed because kicker to Phase One, where, just maybe, we've got too many details. Haney, Tiger's erstwhile swing coach, says inside the book he believes that Tiger might have injured both his Achilles and his knee whilst in the pursuit of non-golf activities. The Achilles was supposedly hurt doing Olympic-style weightlifting; the knee may have been kicked in during a session in an urban warfare simulator, known as a kill house.
Haney's big revelation seems to be that Tiger?alike a lot of us who?¡¥ve been at the same profession for many individuals adult lives?ahas your life and passions and interests that lay outside of his vocation. Oddly, though his interests might seem somewhat extreme, this appears to humanize him much more. What compels him?aany of us?ato pursue these activities? Boredom? The need for an issue? Maybe the sense we usually are not wholly based on our jobs?
So, perhaps we're on to Phase Two Mizuno Mp-63 irons with Tiger. It will likely be different. Tiger's aura ahis power to win tournaments through intimidation alone?awas mortally wounded on the 2009 PGA Championship, when little-known Y.E. Yang stared him down. Rory McIlroy as well as the rest of the game's youngsters appear to relish a bout with the old champ. Even Phil Mickelson seems totally rejuvenated and focused today when paired with Tiger. Woods will have to win the old-fashioned way now: just play better golf than your fellow competitors. (Graeme McDowell didn't placed much of a fight on Sunday, that's more likely because of his poor-putting pc was to any intimidation factor.)
Tim Finchem, the Tour's commissioner, and also the rest of the Tour brass need to be smiling, if your bit cautiously. A year ago, Finchem somehow achieved huge nine-year TV contract extensions with CBS and NBC when Tiger was at his nadir. The important points from the deals were never disclosed, but were considered to be improvements about the Tour's Mizuno MP 53 Irons six-year, $3 billion contract with all the networks that have been signed in 2006. Also, he convinced Fed-Ex to re-up on its persistence for the Tour's season-ending tournament.
Still, Tiger's Phase Two seems tenuous. There exists a temptation to read excessive into one Tour win. Tiger has those serious-seeming medical issues, a balky left knee which has been operated on 4 times, with an Achilles heel that generally seems to swell up randomly.
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