Yes, it's hard to believe but Tiger hits 'the Big Four-Oh' today. It doesn't look like that lengthy ago while he become pronouncing "Hello, World."
You're going to read and pay attention plenty of retrospectives, opinions, predictions and eulogies for Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods these days. Some of them may be optomistic, some pessimistic, some wistful and some downright mean. Tiger will get a number of tweets wishing him a Happy Birthday and a rapid healing from surgical treatment. We can also assume a few tweets which are in awful taste and others that border on defamation; many humans seem to trust that social media is a license to be merciless and that they have a moral responsibility to achieve this.
And let's face it: There are a lot of unhappy people on this planet who get their jollies by watching the distress of folks who have had significant success in their lives. Especially when that person has been a polarizing personality like Tiger Woods.
I've written plenty about Tiger over the years I've been doing this blog. (Ruthless Golf is in its SEVENTH year now, which simply amazes me.) And if you've read any of those posts, you know I tend to fall into the 'optimistic' category. I expect Tiger to recover enough to play some significant golf in the future, although I think it may take him a couple of years this time and I hope he's patient enough this time to do so. And while he's made some significant personal mistakes over the years, I think he's done a pretty good job of growing from them.
But these days I'm now not trying to write whatever especially insightful nor crucial approximately Tiger. All I want to do is tell him how plenty I've loved looking him play golfing over the years,and want him a wholesome New Year together with his children.
Happy Birthday, vintage man. I suppose you have earned it.
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