Tiger Woods: Human after all.

There is a part in all of us which loves perfection, and it is that part of us which I believe draws everyone-golf fans or not-to watch Tiger Woods.

Of course it’s not just Tiger’s talent on the golf course which draws us to him but also the quiet way in which he goes about his life and manages to stay out of the public eye without things such as drunken nights at a strip club or shooting himself in the leg with an illegally registered gun drawing unnecessary, and negative, publicity to himself.

That all said, those who watched this weekends PGA Championship saw history as it relates to Tiger Woods. For the first time, we saw that Tiger is human.

14 times prior, in the professional golf tournaments known as majors, we witnessed Woods carry a 54 hole lead on to a win after 72 holes. This constant level of perfection and the countless amazing shots we have seen him make at the highest levels of competition in his chosen profession is what enabled us all to view Tiger as a godlike figure on the golf course-perfect and indestructible when in the lead. This past Sunday was the 15^th time that Tiger was in such a situation, leading a major golf tournament after 54 holes, and it was the first time in which he failed to deliver on what we have all come to expect when he was in the lead-a victory.

In the coming days there will be much talk about the man who beat Woods this weekend, 37 year old Y.E. Yang of South Korea, and particularly about how Tiger failed for the first time in his career to deliver when leading a golf tournament after 54 holes. Some will say that Tiger is losing his touch (and may even try to diminish his greatness) because, if you watched him play Sunday, he wasn’t beaten by Yang, he beat himself. But those who are more understanding and knowledgeable of Golf will recognize that all this loss by Tiger proves is A) Just how hard Golf is-even for the best player in the world, and B) That Tiger Woods, just like all us, is not perfect, which means that even he will have to fail sometimes.

Tiger Woods, after all, is human.