When people think of golf the first name that pops into people’s mind is Tiger Woods. Tiger has seventy-nine professional golf tournament wins and fourteen majors. Even though Tiger still hasn’t passed Jack Nicklaus’ eighteen major championship people still believe that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer who ever lived. Tiger’s career hasn’t been all positive, though; the 2008 United States Open being the last major tournament he has won. Because of this slump, Matt Cochran advocated that Tiger Woods would never win a tournament again in his article Why Tiger Will Never Win a Tournament again. Although Tiger woods has a high probability of winning, at least, another professional tournament, Matt Cochran’s persuading article has the reader
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He goes on to explain that Tiger himself could figure out how to fix his flaws, saying “there are too many people trying to tell him what to do.” He points how Tiger is only complicating matters by having several different swing coach’s telling him how to swing when Tiger himself has the answer to all his woes. This only stronger proves Cochran’s argument, Cochran shows that Tiger doesn’t believe in himself to fix his own problems, so he has to hire several different swing coaches to fix it for him. This argument shows all of the Tiger woods fans his side of failure, pushing them to further belief that Tiger may never win a tournament again. Cochran then goes on to quote Jack Nicklaus, the man Tiger woods looks up to and who is trying to surpass. “He’s the only one who can fix what he’s got going wrong.” Sourcing out Jack Nicklaus only improves Cochran’s argument. Bringing to the reader’s attention how stubborn and how bad of a shape Tiger’s mental game is. Cochran really brings out Tiger’s stubbornness when he states “When one of the greatest golfers in the world is telling you that too many people are getting involved, you listen.” Cochran, knowing Tiger’s stubbornness even offered the idea of going back to his original swing coach Butch Harmon since he was at his prime with Butch, but then sarcastically states “Oh that’s right, he’s too stubborn to do
He goes on to explain that Tiger himself could figure out how to fix his flaws, saying “there are too many people trying to tell him what to do.” He points how Tiger is only complicating matters by having several different swing coach’s telling him how to swing when Tiger himself has the answer to all his woes. This only stronger proves Cochran’s argument, Cochran shows that Tiger doesn’t believe in himself to fix his own problems, so he has to hire several different swing coaches to fix it for him. This argument shows all of the Tiger woods fans his side of failure, pushing them to further belief that Tiger may never win a tournament again. Cochran then goes on to quote Jack Nicklaus, the man Tiger woods looks up to and who is trying to surpass. “He’s the only one who can fix what he’s got going wrong.” Sourcing out Jack Nicklaus only improves Cochran’s argument. Bringing to the reader’s attention how stubborn and how bad of a shape Tiger’s mental game is. Cochran really brings out Tiger’s stubbornness when he states “When one of the greatest golfers in the world is telling you that too many people are getting involved, you listen.” Cochran, knowing Tiger’s stubbornness even offered the idea of going back to his original swing coach Butch Harmon since he was at his prime with Butch, but then sarcastically states “Oh that’s right, he’s too stubborn to do