Tiger Woods Must Prove He Can Putt Again at Cadillac Championship

If Tiger Woods wants to prove to the world that he is indeed on his way back up to the top of golf, he's going to have to putt like the Tiger of old at the 2012 Cadillac Championship.

There are no more excuses for Woods, this is something that he has to do.

There was a point during the pinnacle of his career where Tiger was automatic on the green, and that's arguably what made him so good.

There are plenty of golfers that can drive the ball 400 yards down the fairway and set themselves up nicely, but there are only a handful of golfers in the world that can sink the putt.

That's what made Woods the best golfer in the world and arguably, if not easily, the best ever.

That is also what has been sorely lacking from Woods' game as of late, according to Barry Svrluga of The Washington Post:

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With the Masters now a month away and his last major championship nearly three-and-a-half years ago, Woods faces questions he never has before: Now that the tinkering with his swing seems to be approaching completion, will he regain his supremacy with the putter? More over, are his struggles physical or, more ominously, mental?

“I can’t neglect what I do on the range,” Woods said at Doral Golf Resort on Wednesday, a day before he joins the rest of the top 50 players in the world for the WGC-Cadillac Championship. “But I can also start delegating a little bit more time to my chipping and my putting.”

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Woods has to putt well at the Cadillac Championship.

He's undoubtedly been looking a lot better, and we've seen flashes of the old Tiger, but until he regains his supremacy on the greens, his comeback will never be complete.

It's simple, if he doesn't get it done with the putter, he doesn't win. If he doesn't win, there is no comeback.

The greatest golfer in history can end his career with an epic comeback, or he can fizzle out into the night with the memories of a failed marriage, public image and career haunting him forever.

He can determine his fate on the greens of the Cadillac Championship.