Jack Nicklaus wasn't always the same golfer who won 18 majors.
If your swing or putting stroke is even a millimeter off its best, you're not the same golfer.
And right now Woods is not the same golfer who roared to those four majors in a row.
Then, suddenly, the same golfer who had made only five cuts in 19 tries on the Nationwide Tour broke into the big time with a bang.
Was this really the same golfer who, at Birkdale in 1991, had not missed a fairway or a green in a final-round 66?
After the embarrassment of the fallout from smashing his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida mansion in late November, can he possibly be the same golfer who, as a rookie pro, won the 1997 Masters by a record 12 strokes?
But this is not a hostile environment for him, and he is not the same golfer he was four long years ago.
For whatever reason, he wasn't the same determined golfer who was a 10-to-11 10-to-11 10-to-11with betting bookmakers.
"They get faced with a lot of the same problems as golfers," Hardy said.
It is not my intent to diminish, in any way, the wondrous skills of the players on the L.P.G.A. Tour, but if the basis of the tournament is to determine the best golfer, man or woman, then the parameters should be the same for each golfer.
