TIGER WOODS AND JUSTIN ROSE: TWO STORIES, ONE WAY.

By Ergio Guitian.

September 2018.

The road to success most of the time is not as easy as you might think. During this month we have seen it in the stories of Tiger Woods and Justin Rose.

Tiger woods struggles.

Until 2008 everything seemed to work properly in Tiger's life. After his fourteenth victory in a Major, the golfer announced that he would miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. As if that were not enough, a year later the problems in her marriage that ended in divorce became public.

In 2013 there was a discreet recovery in his game, achieving his 79th victory on the PGA Tour in August of that year, but again physical problems appeared. Between 2014 and 2017 he underwent four spine surgeries. He says the worst was in the fall of 2015 when he could not get out of bed without help because of the pain.

In April 2017, before undergoing his fourth spinal surgery, Tiger told Nick Faldo at the Masters champions dinner that he did not think he could play again. In September of that same year he announced that he was hitting balls to 60 yards.

However, in this 2018 was reunited with his game achieving several outstanding performances, culminating with his 80^th. Victory, last weekend. The most anticipated return in the world of golf: Tiger is back and the crowds as well.

Now the tiger woods next event will be the Ryder Cup in Paris.

Justin Rose, another way.

Rose, the son of English parents, was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved to England at the age of 5 years old where he started playing golf seriously. After a successful and short career as an amateur, the world met him when he holed an approach on the 18th hole of the 1998 British Open, to finish in 4th place in his last amateur tournament.

He failed the cut in his first 21 tournaments as a professional and unlike Tiger, Rose won his first Major 15 years later, the 2013 US Open. In 1999 he got the card for the European Tour to lose it that year and recover it in 2001. It was only in 2002 when he won his first tournament as a professional and had to wait until 2007 to win the merit order of the European tour. In 2010 he won his first tournament on American soil and in 2016 he became the first Olympic gold medalist in golf since 1904.

Last week, Rose climbed to number 1 in the world golf ranking and won the Fedex Cup for the first time, after which he said, "never give up your dreams" in clear allusion to the 20 years it took him to reach that position. Justin Rose and tiger woods next event will be the 2018 Ryder Cup at Paris.

As you can see Tiger's career was more successful in his first 10 years, while Justin Rose has reached the goals in the second decade of his career, however, the Justin Rose and Tiger Woods struggles shows that for success there is only one way: work hard focusing on the objectives.