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Tiger Woods should quit playing and ‘come back and coach, become a Yoda-esque figure’

July 03, 2017
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“Every time I think about Tiger Woods telling a police officer he cannot bend over and tie his shoes, there is a voice in the back of my head that I simply can't shake. It's something I never thought I'd think, much less say out loud:

“I don't want this man to try to play golf anymore,” ESPN’s Kevin Van Valkenburg writes.

What should Tiger do instead. “He shouldn't come back and try to play golf. He should come back and coach, become a Yoda-esque figure within the game, offering little bits of wisdom to a generation of golfers who would hang on his every word.”

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