Domination Station

Tiger Woods

By Ryan Frisco

This segment is dedicated each week to an athlete who dominated their sport that week

The Old Tiger Woods.  The New Tiger Woods.  We've heard both of these terms thrown around the last couple years.  What do they mean?

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The Old Tiger Woods was great.  He was an unstoppable force on the golf course.  Players shivered in their golf shoes when they saw his name on the sign-up sheet.  The Old Tiger Woods was going to break all the records.

Then there is the New Tiger Woods.  He was a broken man who had lost his swing, his fierceness and his dominance.  He couldn't putt.  His drives didn't find fairway.  Players looked over his name on the sign-up sheet, looking for real competition.  These are two very different people.

Last weekend, we saw the Old Tiger Woods again.  We saw a man that got inside the head of PGA greats.  We saw the man that won 14 majors in 10 years.

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In one of the greatest displays of dominance on the golf course, Tiger ran away from the competition at the Farmers Insurance Open.  No one came close.  At one point, he had a 9 shot lead in the tournament.  He was so far ahead that after going four over on the last five holes, he still finished a whole four shots ahead of the next closest competitor.

All this happened at Torrey Pines, where he had previously won 7 times.  As one writer put it, 'Tiger makes this prestigious public course look like his own private course.'  It's not home field advantage, but it may as well be.  He has won at Torrey Pines 8 times, and won the Farmers Insurance Open 7 times. 

Tiger Woods dominated the tournament.  He also dominated that course.  That was his 75th PGA tournament victory.  Eight more wins breaks Sam Snead's all-time record.  Four more majors to catch Jack Nicklaus.  It's on folks.  The Old Tiger Woods is back.