Tiger Woods, who has declared over and over that his golf game is better than it was a year ago. Maybe so, but I was rather fond of the old method. He won the 1997 Masters by 12, he lost the 1998 Masters by 6. He shot 270 last year, he shot 285 this year.
Golf is a great and wondrous game because it defies analysis.
Woods may possess a better all-around game, as he claims, but something was missing at Augusta. He didn't putt as well, and he didn't seem as resilient. Woods and John Daly should start a road show. At the Masters, they staged another showdown for supremacy in driving distance. Azinger averaged 272.7 yards during the 1997 season, barely cracking the top 50 on the PGA Tour.