Tiger Woods has been on extended break from his beloved golf, needing surgery to help mend the ligament in his leg. But despite all that, Tiger said he wouldn't fall to pieces from negative energy. Tiger told Golf Digest that his hiatus has been a blessing in disguise. He's got lots of time to spend with wife Elin - expecting the couple's second child in February - and daughter Sam Alexis, 18 months.
And if not for Tiger's injury, all these new memories with his daughter wouldn't exist. "Watching her learn how to talk...yelling at the dogs like I do. We play catch. She’ll catch it and throw it right back to me. I wouldn’t have seen all of this if I had been playing a lot," says Tiger.
Tiger, 32, brushes off knee surgery as "easy," just part of a transitional phase in his life. He's faced a number of setbacks in his years, particularly his father's death back in 2006. But with the closing of that chapter in his life, a new one began with Sam's birth.
"My life changed dramatically when my dad died. Then, after losing my dad, the next year to have Sam - those were polar opposite experiences." An odd position, since he found himself "as low as I could possibly be to be as high as I could possibly be, all in one year."
All the naysayers claimed that becoming a family man would make Tiger a worse golfer, but he proved them wrong. Maybe this year we'll see a true return to form for the golfer. We'll just have to wait and see. For now, though, Tiger is just happy to be right where he is...with his family.
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