On Monday morning, the wind was blowing, the sun was shining, and the grass was flawlessly cut. It was a perfect day at the Augusta National Golf Club. It was a perfect day to welcome champion golfers from around the world to the 2010 Masters Tournament. And better yet, it was a perfect day for Tiger Woods to get back on par.
The four-time Masters champion became famous for one thing and one thing only; playing golf. People have been watching Tiger Woods on TV for years now because he is one, if not the best, golfer in the world. A graduate of Stanford University, the man has become one of the most recognized sports figures in the world as he has won 14 major golf tournaments and 71 PGA Tour Events. Recently though, the champion golfer has had much more to worry about in his life other than golf.
Unless you have been living under a shell for the last few months, you probably have heard about all of the chaos in Tiger’s life. The man was found cheating on his wife on a number of occasions. In addition to that Woods was in a car accident a day after the first affair was made public. Because of the whole sex scandal ordeal, Woods has lost family, friends, sponsors, and people in general look at his differently now. The media has gotten their hands on just about everything and for lack of a better word, have attacked him day in and day out. Sure the man made some poor choices and he is going to have to live and deal with them but those decisions he made are now in the past
Today, April 8th, 2010, Tiger Woods teed off at 1:42 p.m. A large crowd of hundreds of people awaited as the man confidently walked onto the first tee in his striped green shirt. Throughout the day, Tiger was shown talking to people, smiling, and really enjoying himself. And better yet, he finished the day with a career best first day at the Masters as he shot a 68, 4 under par.
Tiger showed everyone today that he can move on and put the past in the past. People make mistakes in life all the time. Sure, this was a huge and costly mistake, not to mention life-changing for Tiger and his family but what happened happened. Tiger has been through sex addiction therapy, has talked to many people, dealt with the media constantly and their ridiculous questioning, and now he is back. And after not playing in a tournament for 144 days, to shoot a 68 and be tied for 7th place after the first day at the biggest tournament in golf history; well, I think it is safe to say he is back on track. And for everyone who has made judgments one way or another about Tiger, that’s fine. But people have grown to know Tiger Woods for who he is as a golfer, not anything in his personal life that had to be exposed to the public because of the fact that he is famous. And after the first day in August, it seems like he’s back on top.
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