What Tiger Woods Needs to Fix During Long Break Ahead of 2013 BMW Championship

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Published: September 4, 2013

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Having already suffered through a fifth straight season without a major championship, it was expected Tiger Woods would claim a third FedEx Cup title to provide a much-needed measure of redemption to his 2013 campaign.

After a less-than-inspired performance in the Deutsche Bank Championship over the Labor Day weekend, even that consolation prize is in doubt.

A week after struggling with back issues but still nearly winning The Barclays, Woods turned in one of his most uneven performances of the year at TPC Boston. While the majority of the field was going really low, Tiger managed just two subpar rounds and finished at four under, an astounding 18 shots behind winner Henrik Stenson.

The performance left him in a tie for 65th, matching his worst finish of the year on tour, and dropped him into second place in the FedEx Cup standings behind the Deutsche Bank winner.



Now, with the FedEx Cup playoffs taking a week off, Tiger has time to rest his mind and body while he looks to fix what’s gone wrong since he fired a second-round 61 en route to winning the Bridgestone Invitational just five weeks ago.

"It wasn't my week," Woods told ESPN.com's Farrell Evans following play on Monday. "I didn't play well and didn't make anything, so consequently I wasn't close to the lead.

"I just didn't putt well. I didn't have a feel for my [putting] lines. My lines were just off."

It seems as if we've heard that before over the past month or so.

Since his eighth career Bridgestone victory, Tiger was essentially a no-show at the PGA Championship and then battled back spasms and poor putting at Liberty National in the first playoff event more than a week ago.

To be fair, it’s been an unusually busy stretch for Woods, who has now played four of the past five weeks as the FedEx Cup playoffs have so closely followed the season’s th...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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