Sometimes just a game or two, other summers I will play once or twice a week, but one thing is always the same. I start getting better as summer winds down and promise myself I will keep playing through the winter. You know hit up the range a couple days a week and even head out to the local course when the weather lets up. Set reasonable goals like getting in 18 holes a month over the wet season. But it never happens. I take the entire winter off. No range, no putting, no golf course. And when I dust off the clubs in the spring I inevitably fall back to square one and lose most of the progress I gained the previous summer.
For that very reason it is nice to see Tiger Woods miss this cut for the U.S. Open. Although the reasons he was missing golf were far more tragic than mine, it would have been too unreal, even for Tiger, to take that many months off and come back and dominate a Major Championship.
The difference is that Tiger Woods is the best golfer in the world and knows the dedication and fight it will take to be a champion again. As fathers day is just around the corner we were all hoping for that Tiger wins it for his late father story, but this is real life and that Fairy Tale ending will not be written at this U.S. Open.
I hope Tiger knows that he honored his father as much by missing this cut as he ever could have by winning it all. I know that he will find the dedication, determination, and discipline his father taught him and once again apply it to breaking records and winning championships.
