I blogged on May 7, 2012, that Tiger Woods would inevitably be back--as in back bigtime.
I based that blog post in part on an amazing shot that he hit on the ninth hole (second round) of the Wells Fargo Championship.
I was there--just a few feet away, while Tiger, using a wedge, launched his ball off the pine needles, then high above the trees and onto the green--about 175 yards away.
Saw that stunning shot.
No, Tiger did not make the cut in that tournament, but that one swing offered a harbinger of things to come.
A few days ago, he hit another AMAZING SHOT in the final round of The Memorial in Dublin, Ohio. Jack Nicklaus called it the best shot, under the extremely trying circumstances, that he had ever seen.
"It was really, really unbelievable, particularly because of the position he was in," Nicklaus told Jim Nantz of CBS moments later. "He hits it short the tournament is over. He hits it long the tournament is over. He put it in the hole. Unbelievable."
Some people called it a flop shot. Others, a chip shot.
Whatever. Tiger won The Memorial and now is ranked the fourth best player in the world.
In case you missed it on TV, here's that historic "flop shot" at the Memorial:
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