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Everyone has an opinion -- and when the subject is Tiger Woods, everyone has a lot of opinions.Woods will return to competitive golf at next weeks Hero World Challenge as the worlds 879th-ranked golfer after 466 days away from the game. What makes this comeback so intriguing is the great unknown. None of us know how his swing will look, how hell score, how hell deal with making another very visible return while thrust into the spotlight once again.That hasnt stopped those opinions from flowing. Here are 10 of them -- call em myths, or uneducated guesses, or misguided hot takes, or just frivolous ideas spewed at so many 19th holes -- and why these opinions range from chunked chips to out-of-bounds shanks.1. If it doesnt click soon, he should just quit ...Quick: Name a Hall of Fame golfer who lost his game at some point in his career and decided to give it up.Trick question. This person doesnt exist.Even players whose careers have been cut short due to a decline in performance -- David Duval springs to mind -- didnt immediately pack it in when their game went south. It took years of effort before they came to the grim realization that theyd never be able to relive those glory years.But heres the thing that always puzzles me: Theres a growing sentiment among the fan base that believes if Tiger cant be the same Tiger who once dominated major championships, he should just stop trying.Nice message for the kids, huh?Sorry, folks. Its actually admirable that Woods knows he cant turn back the clock, knows he might struggle with multiple aspects of his game, knows hell be picked apart for any on-course errors, but still wants to continue trying to return to prominence.If people in other careers decided to quit as soon as their skill set declined, well, wed have a lot of empty jobs in the world. Doesnt it feel hypocritical for these same people to request that of Woods?2. He needs to stop hitting driver off the tee ...Its no secret that Woods biggest miss (to borrow a book title) is with the big stick. During the 2014-15 season, his driving accuracy percentage was just 55.75, which wouldve ranked 164th out of 184 measured players if he had qualified for the official statistic.Simple logic states that if a guy cant keep his driver on the planet, then he should scale back to fairway woods and long irons off the tee instead.Hey, that might work at your local club, where just keeping yourself in play can earn you a victory in that $5 Nassau, but thats a losing strategy on the PGA Tour.Last season, Ryder Cup team member J.B. Holmes led the circuit with a driving distance average of 314.5 yards; PGA Tour Player of the Year Dustin Johnson was second at 313.6.Keeping up with those guys -- and so many others like them, as 27 players topped the 300-yard average off the tee -- is a daunting task in itself. If a player -- not just Woods, but any player -- takes driver out of his hands, hes essentially giving up some 30-40 yards per hole to the longest players. Weve seen guys have success playing small ball, but unless every other aspect of their game is so good, it usually doesnt happen frequently or consistently.The better solution? Woods should keep hitting driver, over and over, until he feels comfortable enough to start contending without compromising.3. He cant even hit a decent chip from just off the green ...Ah, the power of selective memory.Its true: When Tiger returned at the 2014 Hero World Challenge, on his old home course at Isleworth, he offered more chili dips than a state fair. And when he played in Phoenix two months later, those chipping yips were still very evident. Same thing at Torrey Pines the next week, before he withdrew because of poor glute activation. Despite insisting at the time that he was caught between patterns, Woods clearly appeared to have more of a mental block while hitting shots just off the green, as opposed to anything physical or technical.What many observers fail to recall, though, is that he figured it out. By the end of the last season he played competitively; he rid himself of this issue. Sure, there was a skulled chip through the green during the final round of the Wyndham Championship, the last event he played, but those major problems were largely irrelevant over the final four months of that year.4. He no longer has any motivation ...The last tournament Woods won was the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. He tapped in for par to clinch a 7-stroke triumph, gave a TV interview on the final green and started to walk toward the nearby scoring trailer. Just then, his son, Charlie, who was 4 at the time, came boundlessly running toward him. Tigers face lit up -- differently than it ever did during any of his other 78 victories on tour. He immediately hugged his little boy and carried him off the course, that smile never leaving his face the entire time.Woods children are older now; Sam, his daughter, is 9, and Charlie is 7. He never misses an opportunity to talk about being a dad, from attending their soccer games to driving them to school, like any other doting parent. Those kids are now at an age where they can understand who their father is, what he does for a living and how winning is the ultimate goal.While it might be trite to insist that Tiger simply wants to win again, because hes a competitor and thats what competitors do, dont overlook his motivation to win again for his children, to show them the player who won so much before they understood what it really meant.5. He just needs to get healthy and his game will return ...The free square in any game of Tiger Buzzword Bingo is process. He uses this term so much to describe his game that he might as well have it trademarked. But theres a reason he uses it so often. Woods has never been a quick-fix kind of player; he has never been the type to uncover a secret in the dirt and immediately translate it into improved play.For him, it has always been about going through the process. And now, yes, the first piece to this process is being healthy. Its not the only piece, though. Now that hes presumably healthy, hell be able to practice more; once he can practice more, he can work on his swing; once he can work on his swing, his game will improve; once his game improves, he can start contending; once he starts contending, he can win again. You see? Its a process. It might sound cliché when Woods keeps saying the word, but its all part of a cycle that can get him on the road to improvement.6. He should play more tournaments ...This is a popular one. It has been for years.In truth, Woods painted himself into a corner here. Another one of those famous buzzwords he often employs is reps -- as in, he needs more reps for his game to come around. So when he doesnt add more events to his schedule, that idea is used against him, the conclusion being that he isnt taking his own advice.Perhaps his decision to play the Wyndham for the first time in his final start last year suggests hell alter his schedule to include more than the usual suspects. Before saying he should play more frequently and possibly even conclude hell play more frequently, lets remember this: Woods is only a year removed from his third back surgery since March 2014.Even though it theoretically might help his game to get more reps, it might not help his physical health. Woods was smart about this comeback and didnt try to start competing too soon. It stands to reason that hell similarly be smart about the amount of golf he plays, keeping it to a logical minimum until he gets past any limitations.7. This week will provide a window into his future ...You know its going to happen. Woods will spray a few tee shots and the masses will proclaim: Hes done! Then hell make a few birdies and theyll declare, Hes back!Nope. Doesnt work that way.This week isnt all-or-nothing. Theres nothing that will happen at the Hero World Challenge in December that will portend success or failure at the Masters four months from now -- or anywhere else.This is a difficult proposition to comprehend in todays society, where we consume our news in 140-character morsels and make sweeping generalizations based on 10-second sound bites. But lets take Tigers play in the Bahamas at face value. Its basically spring training for him, the first step of many in a comeback that wont reach some immediate conclusion. He has to start somewhere, and the Hero seems as good a time as any. Anyone seeking to make a long-term diagnosis of his game based on how he plays this week is missing the point of what hes trying to accomplish.8. Taking these vice captaincy roles means he wont play on U.S. teams again ...Woods served as an assistant at the Ryder Cup last month, and from the looks of things, he really enjoyed himself in the role. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that a few days later, he was named as one of three assistants to Steve Stricker for next years Presidents Cup. Just like every vice captain for each team, Woods wants to be involved in the process of employing a strategy and constructing a roster, but that doesnt mean he has taken himself out of the running for still competing, too. Granted, it would be considered an upset for him to go from a year off to once again representing a U.S. team, but its not out of the realm of possibility. And its certainly not because he already has a role on the team. Trust me: Stricker would be more than happy to have any of his assistants play their way onto the team. Hell just have to hand off that extra earpiece to someone else.9. Golf needs Tiger in order to survive ...This is one of my biggest pet peeves around the game right now.I hate this idea. And you know what? Its just plain wrong.The game is in a great place with young superstars such as Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth all in the prime of their careers. Its not going anywhere. Theyre not going to stop holding tournaments just because Woods isnt involved. But people see the decline in television ratings and decreased numbers in participation at the recreational level and presume that Woods is the missing variable. With him, the game flourishes; without him, it perishes. Thats too simplistic.The Tiger Woods era was unlike any other period in the games history. People of different cultures, races and ethnic backgrounds flocked to a game that had largely been considered a country club endeavor, rightly or wrongly. That was a blip on the radar, an uptick that will never be replicated. Its only sensible that in Woods absence, weve witnessed a regression to the norm. The game will be in a much better place if he not only returns on a regular basis, but finds success in his latest comeback. Golf is better with him. But does it need him to survive? Absolutely not. Its not going anywhere.10. Nobody cares about Tiger anymore ...This one is almost laughable, but every time I so much as tweet something regarding Woods, I receive a few variations of this response.Look, I get it. Some people are Tigered-out. Maybe they stopped caring after his personal indiscretions went public, or they think too much attention is being placed on the worlds 879th-ranked player, or theyre more into Phil Mickelson than Woods. Thats fine. The assertion that the general public doesnt care about Tiger as he approaches this comeback is just plain wrong. This isnt some media-driven frenzy. Theres a major appetite to see if he can return to form this week and beyond.People care. They really do. Once again, its that great unknown which is so intriguing. 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