Tiger Woods: Possible Punishment for Behavior at Masters Marks Another Low

A career-low performance at the Masters may not be the last of the fallout for Tiger Woods resulting from his miserable week at Augusta National.

There remains some residual concern as to whether Woods should or will be disciplined by the PGA Tour for kicking his clubs after hitting bad shots on more than one occasion during the second round.

According to The Associated Press, it'd be well within the bounds of the tour's rules to punish Woods for "conduct unbecoming a professional."

However, the public may never know if the PGA does or does not, since the organization does not disclose its dispensation of fines and suspensions.   

Whether or not Tiger is actually dealt an additional blow by the powers-that-be is largely irrelevant.

What's more important, for Woods as well as the golf community at large, is that there's been any cause for this discussion in the first place.

Not that Tiger hasn't rubbed people the wrong way on the golf course before, or that he's the only person on tour to have done so.

Rather, Woods' behavior is more startlingly indicative of a man whose state of mind won't soon allow him to get back to winning at the highest level of his sport.

To sit atop the leaderboard at one of golf's most prestigious events requires a resolve, a calmness of mind and a mental fortitude under pressure that Tiger just doesn't seem to have at his disposal anymore.

Simply put, Tiger won't return to the top until he gets his head in order and stops lashing out at himself.

As for lashing out at his clubs? That's a symptom of deeper issues, not a root cause in and of itself.

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