Tiger Woods: When Will He Win His First Tournament of the Year?

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Published: March 15, 2011

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Guys used to tease me that if they did not get their drives to the ladies’ tee, they would have to play “Texas Rules,” which they said meant playing the rest of the round with their you know what out. 

Luckily the PGA Tour has rules against that or Tiger Woods would have had a situation in the second round when his tee shot on the second hole hit the rough short of the ladies’ tees.  The shot went 122 yards.  Later that same round, on the 14th, his drive went 188. He bogeyed the 122-yard shot and made par on the 188-yard one.

Now even I can out-drive Tiger Woods. 

Butch Harmon, one of Woods' former instructors, said on the WGC Doral Cadillac telecast, “The drives at the second and 14th were a shock. This is Tiger Woods, not a Nationwide Tour player trying to get his card.”

Of equal concern—and honestly, I believe it was Saturday, but just did not write it down at the time—was the tee shot he hit, then bent over and grabbed his left knee.  It buckled and he limped a little.  Then the camera went away. 

That could be the real issue.  Maybe the knee is still not quite where he can manage a swing. Maybe it won’t ever be. Maybe it was just a momentary thing and it means nothing.  We don’t know.   

Sunday, Woods pulled a 66 out of the air. So it’s hard to tell in his Jekyll-and-Hyde golf game, which Woods will show up. It’s almost like he’s starting to play like Phil Mickelson!

Woods is not unaware of the problem.

“Well, of course it bothers me. I want to win golf tournaments,” he said. 

But he still believes he is making progress.

“It's just one of those things where I felt that as the week progressed this week, I felt like I hit a lot of good shots but then I would get sidetrack...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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