Stop It, Just Stop It
by AB on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 08:32am
Please stop comparing Tiger Woods’s current injury-induced layoff to that layoff after his father died in 2006. A few reasons:
1 – Even by even the most close-knit family’s standards, Tiger was especially close with his father. His father was his motivation. His driving force. Then the reason that driving force moved from inside Earl to inside Tiger. Tiger’s knee is attached to him, and probably still less close than his bond with his father.
2 – The loss of a parent, mentally, to borrow from Jules, isn’t even the same fucking sport as rehabbing a knee. There’s no funeral to plan, no grieving relatives to console, no internal struggles with coming to grips about life without a father who had been such a monumental part of your life. I doubt Elin is wondering where the next meal is coming from because Tiger’s had to miss a few weeks of competition.
Let it be said that his head was in the wrong place at Winged Foot. That shouldn’t be an issue this time around. So please, just stop it. He’ll either be fine, or he won’t. The US Open will take place, Tiger will play and he will contend or not. It’s happened before.