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TIGER SET FREE
MICHAEL BAMBERGER
June 14, 2009
Everyone offered an opinion, but all it took was a few words from Jack Nicklaus to get Tiger Woods to rediscover his awesome swing
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June 14, 2009

Tiger Set Free

Everyone offered an opinion, but all it took was a few words from Jack Nicklaus to get Tiger Woods to rediscover his awesome swing

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That's the whole point: getting to 19. Yes, he's won twice this year, but those wins will be footnotes when all is said and done. The real headline of the year for Tiger is that he's 0 for 1 in majors in 2009. By dusk on Father's Day he expects to be 1 for 2. He'll view anything else as a failure. Can you imagine this guy as the owner of the Yankees? He'd make you forget all about George Steinbrenner.

Anyway, Nicklaus, a man not prone to bluster, is predicting that Tiger's 15th major will be a New York story. A stab at the big type:

'PAGE-ING NUMBER 15: TIGER TAMES THE BEAST!

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