With every tournament Tiger enters, there's a chagrin that he doesn't dominate the way he used to. "Why did he ditch his coach?" "Why can't he compete the way he used to?" "Where did the real Tiger go?"

The danger of entering the cycle of Shu-Ha-Ri is that you don't have time to emerge from the learning to engage back in your art, field, or sport the way you need to. I would bet that Tiger not only has the time, given his age and detachment from being on top, but has the natural ability, should his cycling through Shu-Ha-Ri be true. Don't assume you know what's going on with him, as so many do. Hope that he's following the last post.