Tiger Woods: Does He Need a Completely New Game or Just More Practice?

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Published: February 1, 2015

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Depending on whom you listen to, Tiger Woods either needs to go back to Butch Harmon or Hank Haney or just needs more practice.

Aaron Oblehoser said on the Golf Channel (h/t Golf Digest's Jone Strege) after the first round of the Waste Management Open that Woods has the yips.

"Tiger Woods can't find his fundamentals," Brandel Chamblee said, adding that in 2005 and 2006, Woods was probably the greatest chipper of all time. But that was certainly not the case this week, as even Woods admitted after missing the cut.

"We all have days like this. Unfortunately, you know, mine was in a public forum, in a public setting," Woods said. "We take the good with the bad, and the thing is, even on bad days like this, just keep fighting, because, you know, on the good days you've got to keep fighting as well."

Woods believes that it is just a matter of practice to get his chipping motion to mimic his longer shots. However, not all of his longer shots were magnificent efforts, either, as he knows. There were some memorable holes, like the eagle on the 13th hole in Round 1. His second shot was so good that his putt was a mere formality. That's the Tiger Woods the world knows and loves. But his chipping this week was in a class by itself—and not a good class.



"I was much deeper overall swingwise. My attacking was much deeper with Sean. Now I'm very shallow. So that in turn affects the chipping. I'm not bottoming out in the same spot. It's a different spot," he explained prior to catching his jet home.

The only options Woods has is to practice and get better, to keep missing cuts until he's no longer exempt or to hang up his golf shoes and retire. So far, the last thing Tiger Woods has been called is a quitter. It's much too early to expect retirement from someone who spent more time than anyone as the top-ranked golfer in the world, a golfer who won five tournaments two years ago.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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