By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.comSAN MARTIN, Calif. — It's not about validation. Tiger Woods made that point. What he didn't make were putts. He's back, playing again, but the return hardly looked like he's back as a dominant golfer. Or even a challenging golfer.
Day One of the rest of Tiger's career took place Thursday at the Frys.com Open at CordeValle Golf Club, a charming but difficult little course carved into the coastal foothills 80 miles south of San Francisco. It's not far from Mission San Juan Bautista, which Alfred Hitchcock used as a setting in "Vertigo."
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