Not many people can understand what Tiger Woods has experienced on the golf course over the past year. Greg Norman is a one of a select few people on earth who can.
Norman can see Tiger Woods winning again, but what he can’t see is Woods intimidating again. Norman doubts whether Woods will regain the intimidation factor that left many of his opponents beaten before a club was swung.
“Tiger will come back,” Norman told The Australian from Crans Montana in the Swiss Alps where he is playing the Omega European Masters this week.
“He knows the golf swing. “When you play at that upper echelon there’s probably 20 or 30 blokes in the world who know exactly what the club is doing within four or five millimetres on the down swing.
“He knows it. That’s why he will correct his mistakes and come back.”
That said, Norman believes Woods’s well-documented personal problems have stripped him of the aura that made him the game’s dominant figure for more than a decade.
Despite a long lay-off as he dealt with his multi-million dollar divorce from wife Elin, Woods has spent 615 weeks atop the world golf standings. Norman is next best with 331 weeks. However, Woods’s stay at the top of the rankings is under threat as he struggles to regain form.
“The most significant factor is the guys aren’t scared of him any more,” Norman said.
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