With his recent announcement of returning to professional golf at this year's Masters (big surprise there), many golf fans are split about 50/50 when discussing Tiger Woods' potential for playing well after a 3 month hiatus. Well, I not only believe he will "play well", I think he's going to win the darn thing.

Hiatus be damned. Sure, any normal human being might have a little difficulty coming back to a professional athletic competition after being away for more than 90 days... but Tiger is anything but "normal". Consider his track record when it comes to playing in a tournament after taking a little time off for very specific reasons (family matters and injury):

2006:

- Dealing with the recent death of his father and taking two months off from competitive golf, missing the cut at the US Open, and after tying for second at the Western Open in 2006, Tiger took another couple of weeks off from tournaments until ultimately playing in the British Open... which he won.

- After the British Open, Tiger would not play again until the PGA Championship 14 days later... which he won.

- At his next tournament, the WGC Bridgestone, Tiger once again became victorious.

- Tiger proceeded to win in every single tournament he played for the rest of 2006... and then once again in January of 2007 at the Buick Invitational.

2008:

- While playing with a seriously injured knee, Tiger played in the 2008 Buick Invitational... and won.

- He would not play again until one month later at the WGC Accenture Match Play... which he won.

- He would not play again until roughly one month later at the Arnold Palmer Invitational... which he won.

- He would wait another month until playing in the 2008 Masters... which he finished second, BUT...

- Tiger would not play for another 2 months until the 2008 US Open... which he won.