Tiger Woods Will Play at The Masters

It's official, Tiger Woods will make the most anticipated return in sports at the biggest tournament on the PGA schedule: The Masters.

One of the best golfers of our time will make his long-awaited return to a sport that has struggled without him. The crowds will never be what they are when Tiger is in attendance. Television ratings are never as high as when Tiger is lurking towards the top, or at the top, of the leaderboard. And crowd roars are not nearly as loud as when Tiger drains a 30-foot putt and throws that infamous fist punch into the air.

Woods picked the perfect tournament to make his return not only because the crowds are very controlled, which will mean the lack of hecklers, but winning the tournament will make the biggest statement Tiger could possibly make. It will tell not only the fans and the media that he's back, but it will put every player on tour on notice that he is back.

But what happens after The Masters? Will Tiger go back into hiding until he can find another controlled tournament, or will he play with absolutely no fear at every tournament he can get his hands on?

Make no mistake about it, Tiger is going to get his fair share of hecklers. Fair or not, it's how fans react. They want to find someone that they can get under the skin of, especially those that hated Tiger right from the moment he stepped on tour. They want to try to drive him out of the tour for good.

But those fans better be aware of just who they're heckling and what Tiger is capable of. No, he won't go Ron Artest on them and jump into the gallery and begin throwing haymakers, but he'll do one better than that. He'll win, and he'll win convincingly.

Gone will be the days of winning tournaments by just a few strokes; he'll make sure that even though he's up by ten, he'll continue to step on the gas and run up the score like the Steve Spurrier days at Florida. Tiger will show absolutely no mercy.

Put his personal life aside, because his return will not be about what has happened in the last six months. It won't be about the women who expect, for some reason, an apology, although most of them haven't apologized for sleeping with a married man. It won't be about the accident on Thanksgiving night.

This return will be about the man who we thought was larger than life. The man that we thought would break every PGA Tour record that's ever been created and win every tournament he entered.

This is about Tiger Woods. This is about getting back to the game that made him famous and back to the fans that adored him.

His fellow players don't like him, Woods is well aware of that. He knows he has the biggest target on his back, and he knows they're salivating like sharks who smell blood in the water. He knows they're just waiting to tear him apart and say, "See, he's not such a big deal after all."

What his fellow players don't realize is Tiger is the biggest shark in the water; he's the biggest predator in the field. He's the predator that is staring down his prey and just waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.

No more speeches, no more press conferences, no more apologies. This is about the PGA Tour, and this is about the sport's biggest star returning on the sport's biggest stage. It would be like Michael Jordan making his long-awaited return at the NBA Finals or Peyton Manning making his return at the Super Bowl.

Tiger doesn't care if you like him; he doesn't care if you hate him. Tiger is focused on one thing and one thing only—winning. We've only seen a small portion of what Tiger is capable of, and a small portion of how damaging this dominating athlete can be.

We're about to find out just how good Tiger Woods really is. So strap yourself in and hang on tight, because this ride will be unlike any other, and it begins at The Masters.