Sobel: In Tiger Woods' mind, he can still be great again

For a golfer like Tiger Woods, a wonderful memory can be a great thing, yet cruel at the same time. Chris Trotman/Getty ImagesTiger Woods is going to come back.

OK, so he almost certainly won't come back as that Tiger Woods, the one who made winning majors look easy; he likely won't come back as the post-scandal Tiger Woods who reinvented himself as the world's best player during an impressive second act of his career; he might not even resemble any early model of Tiger Woods, instead further reminding us of Willie Mays stumbling around the New York Mets outfield or Joe Namath feebly throwing passes for the Los Angeles Rams. But he is going to come back, in some shape or form.

In the wake of…