Is tiger finished?

Real shame he's had to pull out

I can't see where he goes from here but I hope he has a plan (I admit my first thought on hearing the news of another back injury was basically that's it for him in top level golf, but I really hope I'm wrong)
 
I think he's got 2 choices....
Stop playing and get the physical problems sorted or
Retire.
He's not doing himself any favours doing what he's doing.
The problem is, if he takes option 1 there is a chance he might not come back at all. It could be that the problems can't be fixed in a short enough time frame for him to return. But he needs to take enough time to get physically healthy.

And then stop trying to beat the cover off the ball!

I've always been "on the fence" about Tiger and a fit Tiger is a benefit to golf but a Tiger that cuts the kind of figure that he is at the moment is verging on an embarrassment to the game.

Retire or take enough time to get right - it won't surprise me if we don't see him compete again.
 
He runs the risk of his career going the same way as Seve's did. Coach after coach, altering his swing to try and get round the back issues whilst hacking it about to an almost embarrassing standard. I think he needs to take a serious amount of time off to see if he can get his back to heel properly.
 
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I can't see him winning a major again. Let's be fair he hasn't even come close for years.

Unless he does a repeat of Nicklaus' Masters win out of the blue he's done I think.

Shame though I've enjoyed watching him he makes every major just a bit more interesting.
 
Tongo said:
He runs the risk of his career going the same way as Seve's did. Coach after coach, altering his swing to try and get round the back issues whilst hacking it about to an almost embarrassing standard. I think he needs to take a serious amount of time off to see if he can get his back to heel properly.
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I have coincidentally just been reading a book on Seve and have to say that reading about Seve and watching Tiger does draw comparisons
 
Its worrying to think that he feels he's fit enough but in reality every time he's reached that point lately he's been far from it. Once he's finally sorted his fitness out he then needs to be able to compete mentality through 4 rounds to be in with a shout of winning... I'd love to see him back competing at his best but those days are gone.
 
Time to give it a proper rest and consider if he has the heart to go through more days like this in order to make progress. I think he still expects to rock up and dominate the game, which is unrealistic,

He says at home and on the range, he is hitting 1000s of balls? So why is this back thing not flaring up then? Some will say he is putting it on and if I'm honest I do think he has used the injury as an excuse when having a bad day. Yesterday was different, the back was not right from almost hole 1. He must be doing something different on the course in comps than he is on the range (I think we are all guilty of that sometimes!).
 
I don't think he's finished, yesterday looked like a muscular problem rather than the disc issues he's had. I thought he showed pretty good fight to get back to level after missing almost every fairway. Chipping was better and holed a couple of putts. I just wish he'd settle for being 20 yards behind the younger guys but on the fairway. His driving was a wow factor when he first came onto the scene but it was his iron play and putting that won him so much, he needs to re-evaluate his game plan in my opinion, trying to rip the driver won't be helping.

I think he'll be back, he won't want to go out like this
 
Swingalot said:
He says at home and on the range, he is hitting 1000s of balls? So why is this back thing not flaring up then?
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Assuming it's a genuine injury I imagine he swings at a more reasonable pace and not lashing at it as he does when he gets into competition!

Starting to think Tiger will struggle maintain any sort of fitness until he starts to swing the club rather than hit the ball!
 
I think hes done. Its sad but I do not see a way back for him. After his personal problems and injury issues and at 39 years old, I cannot seem him recovering.
would love to see it happening but I just cannot see anyway back for him.
 
Back injury? Yeh right. Funny how his back is fine when he was filmed hitting 100's of balls a few days ago
 
I think a commentator last night summed it up pretty well - he is a 39 year old playing in a body of a 45 year old and a mindset of a 30 year old.

There's no way that's compatible - to maximise your current potential you have to understand the limitations of your body and work that into a strength (Phil Mickelson is a great example of this). His mindset is currently as much to blame as anything else, which unfortunately is something I just don't see him being able to change.
 
Yes he is finished. Has been for some time.

He should retire. Fingers crossed he doesn't go into the media as he spouts complete bilge most of the time. E.g. "Activate glutes" - eh? What a stupid thing to say......

Recently told interviewers that on one occasion, his sacrum popped out but he was fine 20 minutes later after a doc popped it back. Physiologically impossible according to my in house medical expert. Just utter tripe although it could be that is precisely what he has been told by some quack who felt under pressure to come up with some gobbledegook quick fix.

I don't even think he is that badly injured. Just playing very poorly with driving and chipping yips and walks off the course citing chronic pain as an excuse and in order to avoid another worst round ever. As a sufferer of back pain myself, when it is so bad that you can't swing a golf club then you are going to struggle to drive too. All seems a bit fishy to me.


Personally, I am glad to see the back of the Tiger era. Decent player but not the best ever and by many anecdotal accounts, a pretty unlikeable bloke. Just could never warm to him.
 
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