Tiger Tamed?

Now that Tiger Woods has finally lost a major championship after having the 54-hole lead maybe people will stop making excuses for him every time he hits a bad shot or has a bad round. The man is only human and we don't have to find a reason for everything he does wrong, which usually isn't much.

It was so sorry on Sunday to hear the announcer, not sure who, say that Tiger hit a perfect shot on the last par 3, and the ball didn't even stay on the green. If he had hit a perfect shot the ball would have stayed on the green and he would have had a putt of less than ten feet. That is a perfect shot.

Just becasue Woods hits it and starts staring it down doesn't mean you have to guess that he has hit a perfect shot. And then you have the ESPN and SportsCenter people who all night and morning have been saying that he choked in the final round and that he got too conservative.

Can't you people just say that Tiger finally had a bad final round in a major when leading after the third round, and that Y.E. Yang was the better golfer on Sunday. Of course, though, we have today's headline on ESPN.com that asks, "Did Y.E. Yang win the PGA or did Tiger lose it?" Give me a freaking break!

Tiger simply had a bad round and was beaten by a golfer who was better than him, at least, on Sunday. That's it. Tiger wasn't hitting great shots and getting unlucky. Y.E. Yang was hitting great shots and Tiger was not. Period.

But the way I see it, Tiger will only use this season for motivation in the future. This marks the first year since 2004 that Tiger has failed to win a major in a season. He'll be ready for next year and he will be even better after Sunday's disappointment.

So stop making excuses for Tiger because he's not making them. He knows that he didn't putt very well at all and that he was too inconsistent off of the tee. Y.E. Yang, on the other hand, was hitting fairways and greens and making putts all day. Not to mention that eagle chip on the 14th hole. But don't worry too much about Tiger, I'm sure he'll be back next season and win the Grand Slam.