Tiger Scewered By His Driver
Talk about falling on your own petard! Tiger had his first win in his first tournament of the year in Abu Dhabi just about sewed up. He was playing well and tied for the lead going into the final round on Sunday when up popped the boogie man – his wayward driver.
I’ve been vocal in stating that Tiger will win a lot this year, including at least one major, as long as he’s healthy. I never imagined, with his body healed and plenty of practice time that his driver wouldn’t fall into line. On Sunday, Tiger hit only 2 of 12 fairways. That’s TWO in case it hasn’t sunken in yet. As a result he was putting to save pars. The fact that he lost by only 2 shots probably says something good about the rest of his game.
Modern Tour golf is just too competitive these days for anyone, even Tiger in his prime, to be able to win without keeping the big dog in line. How can the best player of our times not be able to hit a driver straight. I put this in the category of Bill Belichick not being able to put together a decent defense for the last 3 years. You could also argue for both the Patriots and Tiger Woods that they’re not even moving in the right direction over that time period. Can Tiger get any worse with his driver? Will he become the 21st Century version of Ian Baker-Finch?
Tiger has every tool to fix his driver problems at his disposal; swing gurus, the best of modern club technology, slow motion video, shot trackers and probably a lot more items we don’t even know about. Maybe Tiger should talk Nike into letting him try one of the TaylorMade Rocketballz 3-woods. If he can hit it 90% of what Dustin Johnson can he won’t need a driver!
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I just read some interesting comments from Tiger about his driver play on Sunday in Abu Dhabi. He said the stats looked a lot worse than his play as some of his drives only slightly missed the fairway or ran through. He also said that if that’s his worst ball striking day he’ll gladly take it. Maybe his driver problems are more resolved than it appears.
Yes I remember one of the commentators during the 2011 Australian Open saying that Tiger’s game is coming along great but he needs to get his driver in order. Those wayward tee shots are costing him badly during it seems that one round each tournament that is stopping him from winning again.
Once he gets that sorted the golfing world will be looking over their shoulder again wondering where he is on the leaderboard.