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Tiger Woods needs to grab the PGA Championship to salvage his season. (AP Images)

If he were any other golfer in the world, Tiger Woods would be having a tremendous year.

But because he is Tiger, it has not been a tremendous year. Not yet, at least.

His victory in Sunday’s Buick Open, while impressive, does nothing to alter that perception. All that can salvage Woods’ season is a victory in a few weeks in the PGA Championship at Hazeltine.

He is the +175 favorite but that should be no surprise as he has been the favorite at every major he’s participated in for more than a decade.

But based on his inability to come through at Augusta National, Bethpage Black, and Turnberry in 2009, the aura of invincibility is not there as it was in the past.

It would not be a shock to see him go majorless for the first time since 2004. It might not even be a shock if he failed to finish in the top 10.

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