He was poised to make the Masters his first major title when he held a four-shot lead going into the final day earlier this year, but a meltdown on the 10th hole led to a triple-bogey and he ultimately carded a final-round 80.
Woods, a four-time Masters champion whose shots have prompted so many similar roars at Augusta, had to make way for McIlroy, who is poised to become the youngest Masters champion since Woods himself in 1997.
The Masters champion had looked poised to partner Lee Westwood in the morning foursomes as the pair practised together on Thursday, with the European captain, Darren Clarke, sending his likely pairings out together.
There is one in Hell's Kitchen that has been bashed over in such a way that it looks poised to leap on a pedestrian, as if a master sculptor had imbued it with a kinetic energy.
Like a couple of cinematic Transformers, two grandly ambitious films — "Cloud Atlas," from Warner Brothers, and "The Master," from the Weinstein Company — are poised to meet their audience at the Toronto International Film Festival this weekend.
He's just completed a master's in wildlife film-making and is poised to start work as a runner on the BBC's Springwatch.
It's probably no coincidence that Jay Z has also long been a master of this approach, or that Drake is poised to have a similarly lengthy and successful career.
That said, Apple does appear poised to be pushing podcast providers toward more quality standards like mastering levels, so different shows don't have vastly different volume levels when played in succession.
Few contemporary composers are better poised to trade on the saxophone's ambivalent status than John Adams, who long ago mastered the art of moving nimbly between the classical and pop worlds.
Michael B Junge, a former Google recruiter and author of Purple Squirrel: Stand Out, Land Interviews, and Master the Modern Job Market, said that LinkedIn may be poised to have a bigger impact on hiring globally in the near future.
