{"id":329877,"date":"2011-03-22T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/tigers-new-romance-may-boost-his-game-yahoo-sports\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T16:43:00","slug":"tigers-new-romance-may-boost-his-game-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/tigers-new-romance-may-boost-his-game-yahoo-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger’s new romance may boost his game (Yahoo! Sports)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The news that Tiger Woods<\/a> is \u201cdating\u201d a 22-year-old blonde whom friends describe as a \u201cwild child\u201d (to Radar Online) is, most certainly, legitimate sporting news. It is also, quite possibly, very good news for Tiger\u2019s still sizable fan base.<\/p>\n

Save your protests that the guy\u2019s off-course life should remain his own business. In theory, that\u2019s true. In reality, he hasn\u2019t been much of a golfer since the world (most notably, his wife) found out that he was dating half the cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 16 months and counting since Tiger Woods drove his Cadillac SUV into a fire hydrant and Elin Woods smashed in its windows with a golf club. Since then, there\u2019ve been two stops in rehab, one divorce and zero victories on the golf course.<\/p>\n

Tiger\u2019s private life affected his professional life like few other athletes we\u2019ve ever seen. There\u2019s no way any development isn\u2019t news.<\/p>\n

Most of these guys just shrug it all off. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> star guard Tony Parker had a tabloid affair that caused the breakup of his marriage with Eva Longoria, and not for a night did his game suffer. Kobe Bryant used to attend hearings for a sexual-assault trial in rural Colorado, then jet to Los Angeles that night and play for the Lakers like nothing was wrong. Even Michael Vick merely had to work off the prison rust \u2013 not the mental humiliation of running an interstate dog fighting ring \u2013 to return to form.<\/p>\n

Woods has been the exact opposite since his world came down around him. He can\u2019t find his stroke. He can\u2019t find his confidence. He can\u2019t find a putter to stick with.<\/p>\n

Mostly, he can\u2019t find a victory. The once longtime No. 1 golfer in the world is just another guy right now.<\/p>\n

The Masters Tournament is two weeks away. Once seemingly inevitable, Tiger\u2019s pursuit of Jack Nicklaus\u2019 record 18 major championships (Woods has 14) is now hurtling toward unlikely. (He could really, really use a major this year).<\/p>\n

The revelation of whom Tiger dated is the single biggest development in golf since, well, Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes at age 21. So now that he\u2019s apparently back on the social scene, if you will, it\u2019s 100 percent worth noting.<\/p>\n

No one knows where this budding relationship is headed. We can only wish them the best. Of course, it has all the trappings of a train wreck in progress \u2013 she\u2019s rich, she\u2019s young, she parties, she isn\u2019t into long-term relationships, all according to other anonymous \u201cfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tiger is, well, Tiger. He says he\u2019s a changed man and maybe he is \u2013 whatever that means. He\u2019s single. He can do whatever he wants.<\/p>\n

What we do know is that Tiger was a lot better golfer when his personal life was a chaotic juggling act filled with women who wouldn\u2019t be described as particularly well-adjusted or mature.<\/p>\n

From a strictly professional perspective, the lunacy of trying to maintain dozens of those kinds of girlfriends somehow aided his game \u2013 or at least it didn\u2019t derail his game like the apparent straight and narrow path he took after the scandal.<\/p>\n

Many have long wondered why Woods didn\u2019t just embrace what he was, apologize for being a lousy husband and father and then move on to a weekend at the MGM Grand. That\u2019s how most of celebrities do it. That he couldn\u2019t probably says something positive about him.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Tiger fans have been desperate for any sign that he might return to form. They study his swing. They grow encouraged by some solid play. They point to various flashes of brilliance. They hope that time will bring a return to the mental prowess that was so important to his game.<\/p>\n

Yet it hasn\u2019t materialized. Woods willed his way to a fourth-place finish in last year\u2019s Masters, somehow turning one of the most pressurized and surreal scenes in golf into a positive. He hasn\u2019t been as good since.<\/p>\n

At age 35, with no signs of consistency or momentum and with another new swing (and swing coach), he heads into the Masters dealing with a slew of new questions.<\/p>\n

Is he done as a top contender? What happened to his putting? Is he ever going to return mentally? In light of the pressure that comes when winning a couple more majors isn\u2019t good enough, is the Nicklaus record now an albatross?<\/p>\n

So yes, the natural reaction is to not care that Tiger Woods is apparently hanging around a \u201cwild child\u201d 13 years his younger. After all, it looks like a dead-end relationship. It\u2019s probably filed with ridiculous drama. It\u2019s most likely superficial.<\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s everything we know of his affairs with Jamie Junger, Jaimee Grubbs, the Perkins waitress and so on. Those weren\u2019t so good for his marriage, his endorsement business or \u2013 once they were revealed \u2013 his state of mind. In the moment though, they sure helped, or at least didn\u2019t hurt, his golf game.<\/p>\n

Woods and a 22-year-old party girl? Sounds like something the old Tiger would\u2019ve done. You know, when he was still the best golfer in the world.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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