This article has been submitted by this week’s Podcast guest, Trevor Smith.
“Some things are forever, some things are not / It’s the things we remember that gave the world shock”- Nas
Scary news for the PGA Tour: the greatest golfer ever is playing better than ever right now. The planet-destroying, soul-collecting entity known as Tiger Woods is embarrassing the rest of the tour at the moment (actually, he has been for over a decade now). One can envision El Tigre walking into the clubhouse last weekend, looking at a room full of timid, overweight white guys and asking which one of them is playing for second. In winning the Accenture Match Play Championship by crushing Stewart Cink 8 and 7 Sunday in a match that was not even as close as that ridiculous score, Woods put the sporting world on notice that he is primed to give us all a summer of golf to remember forever. Consider yourself warned sports historians: Tiger Woods is coming to burn your house down (metaphorically speaking, at least). From grinding out a win in Round 1 to trampling Cink on Sunday, Tiger demonstrated that he is not just the best player in the game, but the best player at every individual aspect of golf: power, toughness, putting, and short-game precision. To suggest he is the best golfer ever at this point is a non-issue; all that is unsettled now is whether he is the greatest athlete ever.
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