Tiger Woods Needs More Competitive Reps

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Published: March 8, 2011

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You’d never think it would be possible to learn anything about golf from watching swimming, but over the weekend, watching the Grand Prix Swimming from Indianapolis, former Olympic Gold freestyler Rowdy Gaines explained why the top stars were racing now. 

He said the reason 2008 Olympians like Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte were swimming is that competing was different than training. 

They needed to swim to see what they were going to have to do to be good enough to win at the World Championships this summer. They needed to swim to see how they stacked up against the competition. They needed to see what their times were now and to see how much they would have to improve to win later. They needed to test themselves against the competition in advance of the next Olympics.

What Tiger Woods may be missing is enough practice in competition.

This week he will get a little bit at the Doral Cadillac Championships, and hopefully at the Bay Hill Invitational he will get more. He has a long way to go to beat the rest of the top 20 in the world over four rounds. 

The only way for him to get better against them is to tee it up.

In 2010, he said that he's still working on his swing. Anybody watching a golf tournament would be able to tell him what he can’t do, but only Woods knows what he is trying to do.

In addition to testing himself against the world’s best, Woods will learn other things by playing at Doral’s Blue Monster course, just as Jack Nicklaus used to. 

Nicklaus said he liked to play Doral because he had played it so many times. He knew where his shots should land and how far they should roll. He knew what his irons should do and how far they should travel. That would tell him how much work he had left before he could go to Augusta National and feel that he had his game ready for that test. 

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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