With most of the season of golf gone, the last major of the year passed, we now have a pretty obvious picture of the Ryder Cup teams. The Ryder Cup being, of course, the showdown for international golf supremacy. Tiger Woods is usually a mainstay on this team because he has always had the tendency of just winning 5 tournaments every year and finishing very high in all the majors.
This year, however, has been quite different for Tiger, this being about the understatement of the century in regards to Tiger's life. All the infidelity stuff thrown everywhere, taking a few months away from golf to do some rehab, coming back and struggling through the majors and other tournaments, seems to be hiring a new swing coach (a bit later than most people think he should have), and just not the Tiger that most people are used to seeing.
Yet, the US Ryder Cup captain, Corey Pavin has stated that Tiger Woods is high on his list for a Captain's pick for the team. Now, obviously, Tiger is Tiger, and you obviously assume that his presence would help to intimidate the other team and stabilize your team. Except for this, Tiger right now, is not the Tiger that most people would want on their team. He's erratic and inconsistent at best, his putting is off, his "Buddhism" practices don't keep him from throwing hissy fits and swearing on the course even after he pledged to be a better person at the birthplace of the game of golf.
So what does all this mean? In my opinion, this means that Tiger shouldn't be selected for the Ryder Cup team. True, he's still the world's number 1, only because Phil Mickelson keeps dropping the ball any time he has an opportunity to over take him. Still, he hasn't played that way, and would probably not help out the team. So it would be better for the US Ryder Team to not have Tiger, (this Tiger, not the Tiger that everybody seems to think will magically come back) and it will probably be better for Tiger to not be part of this team so that he can work on his game, and work on his personal life. Though I do seem to be in the minority on this.
Leave Tiger off, Tiger, stay home.
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