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Tiger Woods hits his tee shot on the 15th hole. Woods didn't miss a fairway in the final round of the Memorial on Sunday, which should be a scary prospect to the rest of the PGA, writes Mike Celizic.

“I haven’t been as consistent as I wanted to be,” he admitted. “Some expectations had to be lowered when I first came back. It’s more gratifying now knowing I can hit shots I need to hit.”

When asked about his driving, he responded with typical understatement. “The driving this week was nice,” he said, choosing the inoffensive “nice” when he could have gone with a more truthful “phenomenal.”

Woods never comes off as a braggart. It’s not in him and not part of his game. But he made it clear that he never thought he wouldn’t straighten everything out and reclaim his title as the scariest athlete on the planet.

“It was coming,” he said of his driving. “It was just a matter of time. I was finally able to put it together this week.”

What he did over the final two rounds of the Memorial was more than just getting it together. The last time Woods hit 18 fairways in a row was six years ago, in 2003. To do it again now, still less than a year after his surgery and eight-month layoff, is significant. It shows that what he’s kept saying every year he’s been on Tour is true: He can still get better.

This doesn’t mean he’s going to win the Open or any individual tournament he enters. The only thing more difficult to do in golf than hitting every fairway on one day is to do it the next day and the next week. Tiger will find the rough again. Everybody does.

But he’s shown that his game is finally back together and he’s feeling confident with the driver in his hands. He’s shown that he’s still learning how to play this impossible game.

He’s shown that there’s still no frightening vision in sports than Tiger Woods in the middle of the fairway.