Tiger Woods Assesses His Performance at the Players; Calls Course Brutal

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Published: May 10, 2015

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Tiger Woods still has a lot of rust to remove from his game—more than a couple gallons of CLR cleaner and a wire brush will remove. Even he knows it. The TPC Sawgrass is a great mirror for anyone’s game, and if Woods didn’t know what he needed to improve before The Players, he knew afterward. 

“It’s a brutal golf course,” he said.

His play had ups and downs.

“It was a mixed bag pretty much all week,” he said after his final round at The Players. “A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.”

By his account, he had three sevens during the tournament, including one in the final round.

“Ernie (Els) and I were talking the other day, boy it can turn quick here. You can be going along playing fine, all of a sudden make double here, and it’s like what just happened,” he explained about what is commonplace at TPC Sawgrass.

For example, in the final round he had a double at the 14th hole, typically hardest after the 18th. Woods hit his tee shot into the water hazard on the left of the fairway. He dropped on the next tee forward and then hit a shot that headed again left, but this time on the edge of the fairway bunker in primary rough. From there it was a 124-yard shot that landed in intermediate rough in front of the green. Then he had a bad chip that landed on the fringe, and it was two putts for a seven.

Despite mistakes made this week, Woods feels his errors will get cleaned up over time.

“This course definitely exposes that,’ he admitted. “I reverted back a couple times out there over the course of the week, but I also did some really good stuff out there, too. It’s going to pay dividends in the end.”

He said his short game is coming around.

“I didn’t have one bad warm-up session this week, which is g...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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