Needless to say that Tiger Woods is synonymous with victory and even if this legend halts for a while in his winnings, he just knows how to make his way back to the centre of the golf stage. This Sunday witnessed his one of his another dramatic games

which had the hearts of millions pounding whether or not the Tiger will make it once again or not.

The master of 14 Championship titles proved it once again as after his absence from the grounds owing to his injury. The world no.1 needed to hole a 16-foot putt on the final green to edge out Sean O’Hair, his worthy opponent. And just like the Woods has always preferred, he needed no second invitation to make it clear that he is back and he is here to stay. The ball found it s place in the hole and caddie Steve Williams could resist embracing the master for it was the sixth time he had won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the third time he had done so by holing a long putt on the final green.

Victories have always been an elixir for Woods but, watching his eye balls widen as his ball flowed towards its intended target and watching him dance with child-like agility when it found the bull’s eye, it just made it very obvious how much this moment and this victory in particular meant to him.

Just as Woods has his army of slavish admirers, he also has a small coterie of people who were already abuzz with his stories of failure because of his not being able to make it in the first two events after returning to the sport at the World Matchplay in Tucson. He got knocked out in the second round in Tucson and finished inside the top 10 in the CA Championship at Doral. However, he has all the mouths shut now and has proved his worth by being nothing but the best once again. Let me not fail to say that is something he has loved to do by serving the speculators with answers only with action.

What stood out in this event was his grit to comeback and hitting some breathtaking shots only to let people know that he is not mellowed, that this Tiger will not buckle in the face of adversity and that he will keep holing crucial putts to prove that he still stands second to none.

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The history of golf traces back to the 12th century. It originated in Scotland, with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes in the place where the famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews now situate.  Anyhow, the exact date of the origin is unclear yet.

According to some scholars, the references of golf from hieroglyphs are found on stone tablets dating to ancient Egyptian

Pharaohs. Chui wan, a game consisting of driving a ball with a stick into holes in the ground was first mentioned in Dōngxuān Records, a Chinese book of 11th century. According to a Chinese professor named Ling Hongling of Lanzhou University, golf reached Europe through the Mongols in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Anyhow, golf was played in Scotland in1672. Golf courses do not always have eighteen holes. The course with eleven holes emerged in the 16th century. In 1764, several of the holes were deemed too short, and were therefore combined. The number was then reduced from 11 to nine. According to Golf Digest in 2002, there were nearly 32,000 golf courses in the world, approximately half of them in the United States. Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Wales, Sweden, and England also has significant amount of golf courses. 

Golf as professional sports was initially dominated by Scottish then English golfers.  But later, America produced the greatest quantity of leading professionals along with Australia and South Africa. In the 1970’s, Japan, Scandinavian and other Western European countries also saw a big hike in the number of golf players.
 
Golf is generally played in a course that has a series of holes, each with a teeing area, fairway, rough and other hazards, and the green with the pin (flagstick) and cup. A typical golf course comprises of eighteen holes, but many smaller courses may only have nine. Modern golf course design has seen a return to its roots.

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