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Open letter: Tiger Woods is still the main story in the world of golf

Cut the coat of your dreams (or wishful thinking) to the cloth of your real capability

Tiger Woods
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Siddharth Shriram
Dear Tiger,
 
Your talent is there but the body will not bear up to the high stress way you used to play the game, and the way you perhaps think the game should be played to be in the winners' circle where the longest ever hitters of the golf ball in tournament golf seem to be. But, did Zach Johnson and several others win Majors because of long driving? Did Tom Watson almost win The Open at age 60 because of long driving? Similarly, can you win tournaments, and even some Majors, by driving the ball no longer than