After undergoing spinal fusion surgery, Tiger Woods returned with a big come back in the Valspar Championship on March 8 – 11, 2018 in Palm Harbor, Florida. His brilliant performance shows that his game has improved.
The 79 times PGA Tour winner and 14 major championship winner finished in second with one point behind Paul Casey. Paul Casey won the Valspar Championship 2018 with 6 – under 65 in the finals and finished on 10 under. While Woods and Patrick Reed scored 9 – under.
This is his best achievement since finishing in the same position at the Barclays Championship in 2013. Woods also hasn’t won since the Bridgestone Invitational tournament in August 2013 and at the finals of AT & T National in 2012. The 42-year-old Tiger has come out the other end of the tunnel, and he has a good chance at the next championship as well as his rankings at Official World Golf Ranking.
Finish in second make him managed to rise his rank to 149 after before in 388. This is the best result Woods ever achieved during the last three years.
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Last year at the Hero World Challenge, Woods reached his lowest point of being ranked number 1,199. Now, being ranked in the top 150 makes him confident that his performance has returned like when he is in the top 10.
This week he has a chance to improve his ranks again at Arnold Palmer Invitational. Woods before has won this event eight times throughout his golf career. Of course, Tiger Woods’s still has a chance to improve his ranking given the golf season is still ongoing.
Performing a Stunning Games
In this Valspar championship, Woods performed stunningly even set the fastest clubhead speed record this year which reached 129.2 mph. Brandt Snedeker even says the same thing about Woods. “He plays better in every round. He did it 10 times better than when he started at the beginning of the year,” Snedeker said.
Highest non-Masters TV Audiences
Woods appearance in the Valspar competition turned out to bring blessings for NBC television station. NBC as the official television station to broadcasting this championship set the record for the highest rated audience since 2013 ago.
In a match that aired Monday, the audience’s rating of the game reached 5.11 overnight. This achievement has also occurred at the 2013 Players Championship event won by who else is not Tiger Woods.
In the final round, Golf Channel also experienced an increase in the audience and managed to achieve a rating increase of 1.65. This rating results automatically make Valspar championship as the highest rated tour shows on Golf Channel.
The Tiger Woods redemption come with a surprising improvement made it worth mentioning as one of the best golfers in the world. Even his popularity is considered to equal Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan. Will his improvement trend will continue? We’ll see in the next tournament.
