Tiger Woods and the State of His Game: Play More, Be Real

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Published: March 15, 2011

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John Abendroth, the long-time golf guru in the San Francisco Bay Area, commented last week on what Ben Hogan believed a pro golfer should do when he became mired in a slump.

“You play through a slump,” Abendroth said, paraphrasing, “but you don’t change something in your swing. Hogan believed that if you tinkered too much on the range during a slump, you could end up changing things that didn’t need to be changed.”

Despite a final round 66 on Sunday, it has been 16 months since Tiger Woods has won a golf tournament. He entered the Florida swing of the PGA Tour schedule having played just five competitive PGA Tour rounds in 2011—four at Torrey Pines before a first-round loss in the Match Play Championship to Thomas Bjorn (of course, there were four rounds in Dubai, too).

In this scenario, most struggling golfers coming off a six-under round would find it unbearable to wait for the next competitive tee time come Thursday.

But not Tiger. Most PGA Tour pros, when they’re struggling, play more. It’s the nature of the game. If they don’t play well, they don’t make money and it’s the end of the year total that determines how much they get to play the next year. Tiger Woods doesn’t have to worry about that, but he still could learn from his fellow pros—play more.

Instead, he’s focused on forging a new swing with teacher Sean Foley. Rather than playing this week in Tampa, he’s on the range. He’s sticking to his usual spring schedule—Doral, time off, Bay Hill, time off, Masters. It is a schedule he used in the past when demand for his presence reached epic proportions. He was more than the game’s top player. He was the dominant sports figure in the world, arguably the most popular man on the planet.

When asked last week about why he doesn’t play more, Woods said his schedule was constricted ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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