rockmanslim wrote:CJ_18 wrote:Golf still does and always will revolve around Tiger though.
Yes it does.
Did you catch the crowd watching Tiger tee off for his practice round today? That was insane. The gallery was packed. For a Wednesday practice round lol.
Tiger Mania was in full effect! They showed him driving into the parking lot, putting his golf shoes on. Then they go shot-tracer out for his warmup on the range before he went out for a practice round. Tiger Tracker was analyzing and tweeting about every one of his shots in the practice round, and every shot was filmed and analyzed on Golf Channel that night.
I watched all of his round yesterday and will watch it all today. Other than that, I''ve been watching a little bit of Rory but thats about it. I am scared of how good he is right now.
I just think Tiger has to be realistic when he’s out there. He has to accept the fact that he has been banged up and even he admits he’s “rusty” and “needs more reps” to build his game back up. Well guess what Tiger, there’s no time to build your game back anymore and ease into it. It’s the PGA Championship, a major and maybe the last time you play for another 6 weeks, if not 2015. You have all offseason to get your game to where you want and and be able to practice all the shots you want to be able to hit in competition. Reality is, you haven’t had time to practice. You say you ‘were dialed in’ on the range today before your round (hitting all draws) and then you come out and try to hit all these different shots and you hit some fat, double cross, snap hooks, huge pushes. Just hit the ball! Hit the same shots you ‘dialed in’ on the range. You know you can hit that high draw right where you want it. I stood there behind you last year on the range and saw you hit 100/100 of your warm up shots a draw, dead straight. So when you don’t have the reps/confidence to hit other shots, just hit that! He was trying to do too much today, and it cost him. On pins on the right, you will be in the middle of the green, and on left pins, you can draw it in perfectly. You are good enough that all you have to do is avoid mistakes/big numbers, and you will be in contention. Like Haney said, you don’t have to ‘make’ anything, you just have to avoid the big misses, 3 putts, etc. Gotta stop shooting for perfection every shot when you haven’t been able to practice to perfect the shots.
