Honda Classic 2012: Tiger Woods' Lack of Composure Will Doom Him

Tiger Woods will not win the 2012 Honda Classic, and he'll have his lack of composure to blame for it.

It's not that he doesn't have the talent—because even a subpar Tiger Woods is still Tiger Woods—and it's not that he doesn't have the motivation.

There's probably no golfer in the world that has the motivational factors that he does. He's got to be itching to prove that he still has it and is still among the greatest golfers in the world.

He's not going to win because he's not focused.

That's something that would have been blasphemous to say about Woods at one point of his career, but my-oh-my how things have changed for the G.O.A.T.

He hasn't been the same since the whole fiasco with his marriage, infidelities, sex addiction and knee ailments, and to be frank, I don't know many people who would be able to weather that storm.

Actually, I don't know anybody who could, and Woods is not the exception. If anything, he proved to us how human he really is.

The problem with humans is that we have baggage.

In Tiger's case, his baggage is public, and it will be a distraction.

Look no further than his recent spat with reporter Alex Miceli regarding excerpts from a book written by Tiger's old swing coach, Hank Haney.

Here's the excerpt Miceli asked about, via Doug Ferguson of the Associated Press on HuffingtonPost.com:

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"I was beginning to realize that his sentiment ran deep, and that as incredible as it seemed, Tiger was seriously considering becoming a Navy SEAL," Haney wrote, referring to the summer of 2007. "I didn't know how he'd go about it, but when he talked about, it was clear that he had a plan. After finding out that the Navy SEAL age limit is 28, I asked Tiger about his being too old to join. `It's not a problem,' he said. `They're making a special age exemption for me.'"

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Wood's was obviously flustered by the question, and he did a poor job of holding it together. Sure, he said all the right things—sort of—but he looked like he was about to jump out of his chair and attack the guy.

If a question like that will get under his skin, how is he going to do when things get tough on the course?

Not only that, but it's not like these questions are going to go away. If anything, they will just intensify.

Tiger will go down as one of the greatest golfers ever, if not the greatest. But I don't trust his emotional state anymore.

He has a rather obvious lack of composure, and that will be his downfall at the Honda Classic.