Whew! I guess when you hit rock bottom the only way to go is back up. Or drown. Tiger showed us the bottom this last weekend in Akron at the Bridgestone Invitational where he lost to Hunter Mahan by thirty strokes. Thirty. Who could have imagined in their wildest that Tiger would shoot that bad? He beat Henrik Stenson by two, placing next to last in the field of 80 players. Everyone is wondering about but almost no one is asking about his mental state. Certainly the shocking news of his sexual activity and the subsequent accident last November have a bunch to do with the state of his game. Certainly the status of his marriage to Elin and the custody of his children must have a bunch to do with his game. Next weekend is the last major, the PGA at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. It will be interesting to see if Tiger can muster anything, can get his game back up to at least acceptable in less than a week. Probably not. And if not, then he won't be playing in the Ryder Cup matches. He won't be playing in any of the tournaments leading up to the Tour Championship, nor the Championship itself. He'll take the rest of the year off to get his head straight, to get his family matters straight, to get his game and enthusiasm for the game back. Although a lot of golf fans are somewhat pleased by his comeupance, I for one hope for the best. I don't want to see his career end with a hollow thump.
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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.
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