Why Tiger's No. 1

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Tiger Woods offered a rare look into his psyche after his victory.
Saturday, when asked whether his passion to win had been instilled by his late father, Woods admitted to having "the mentality of a football player playing golf."
Sunday, he expanded on that.
"I don't think you really lay up on par-5s on the football field, do you?" he said. "You'd get run over. Obviously, you've got to bring everything you're got or else you get hurt.
"In our sport ... some of the guys don't bring it every day, and I just don't understand that. It's not that hard to concentrate for five hours."
Woods' concentration often is cited as one of the main reasons he's the world's top-ranked player.
"I can't play any other way," he said, "because I can't go home at night and look myself in the mirror if I didn't try as hard as I could have."

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