{"id":694,"date":"2009-02-25T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:36:17","slug":"tiger-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/tiger-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods returns to the PGA Tour today and tees off at 2:02p. I have been looking forward to his return for months. The PGA Tour is just not the same without him &#8211; either because he draws interest or people just want to be interested in him.<\/p>\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve seen and heard on the Golf Chanel and ESPN, it looks like he&#8217;s ready. The commentators are professing that they&#8217;ll be surprised if Woods doesn&#8217;t win. I feel the same way. Last time he took a break to fix the knee, he won&#8230; The 2008 U.S. Open! A couple years before that, when he took time to drain the knee, he returned and won at Torrey Pines. <\/p>\n<p>The choice to return in a match play tournament was a wise one. Match play is a different beast than stroke play. Unlike stroke play, match play allows you to have a bad hole and not have to dig your way out of it stroke by stroke. If Tiger is at all inconsistent, he&#8217;ll appreciate the chance to throw away a few holes. Further, unlike stroke play, match play is more emotional. Tiger can better scrap out a win against a feisty opponent. Finally, if Woods is ousted early he&#8217;ll be disappointed, but no to the degree of a missed cut. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to watch for today at the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship. And when it&#8217;s done we&#8217;ll still get to look forward to Tiger&#8217;s stroke play debut. Bam. Bam. Boom!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/cgr\/3308672213\/sizes\/l\/\">My bracket for this tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiger Woods returns to the PGA Tour today and tees off at 2:02p. I have been looking forward to his return for months. The PGA Tour is just not the same without him &#8211; either because he draws interest or people just want to be interested in him. From what I&#8217;ve seen and heard on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[590,587,1163,591,588,220,589,214,545],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-2008-us-open","tag-accenture","tag-golf","tag-knee","tag-match-play","tag-pga-tour","tag-stroke-play","tag-tiger-woods","tag-wgc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}