Tiger. There honestly couldn't be a more appropriate name for one of the greatest players that has ever stepped up to a T. I will be the first to admit, golf is no baseball, football, or basketball. It takes over 4 hours to play, no one gets tackled, and everyone is wearing collared shirts. However, golf is a game of mental integrity, which I think few other sports can really tout. It is you, the ball, and one very tiny hole.I think in general, non-team sports get a bad rap. Having competed in one for for years, I believe that people find individual sports boring, there is only one person to watch on the screen at a time?!? However, individual sports take far more mental toughness than team sports. You can only blame yourself at the end of the day for your failures. This is why I think Tiger is one of the best athletes of our age. Not only did he bring an otherwise (literally and figuratively) a dieing sport back to life, but also has more mental toughness than 99% of athletes out there. Who else could recover from knee surgery, stand in front of bleachers filled with 4,000 or more spectators, and hit a putt to tie it all at the last hole?
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