Posted on 07/28/2015 5:58:14 PM PDT by jazusamo
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Tiger Woods has been here before. He’s changed his swing at the behest of several different gurus. He’s played the Quicken Loans National and won in 2009 and again in 2012.
Woods knows the course at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, which this week is home to the tournament run in partnership with Woods‘ non-profit, the Tiger Woods Foundation. He even competed for the United States in 2005, when RTJ was home to the Presidents Cup.
But this time around, everything is different. The tee boxes are pushed farther than Woods remembers them being a decade ago.
It’s not just the course that has changed. Woods is an entirely different golfer. “Don’t forget, I came off back surgery, changed my golf swing and done a polar 180,” Woods said Tuesday during a press conference. “You add those two together, it’s a perfect storm. I’ve had to fight through both of those at the same time.”
Woods entered the tournament last year as the world’s top golfer. This time around, he sits behind 265 golfers in the world rankings. He has been cut from three tournaments in the current PGA Tour season, more than any season in his career.
Since it’s the first professional stroke-play event hosted at RTJ Golf Club, nobody can say with confidence how few strokes it will take to bring home the trophy. But Woods has noticed a certain trend in stroke-play tournaments, or perhaps he is just more cognizant of how close the competition is now that he is playing from behind.
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You’re right.
Normally the choice of phrases is:
Polar opposites
or
180 degrees out of phase.
Bump.
LOL. I see what you did there.
Must be a global warming/climate change thing.
“Damn that drug/steroid testing .... ruined my game!”
Damn noobie, tell us how you really feel!
lol and shoot a round like me?
"...I'm almost there, just a little more time(money), a few minor things to work out...ah, it's only a flesh wound..."
OK.
The media were paid by IMG to do so, long ago.
There comes a time in every golfer’s life when he quits getting better and struggles to keep his form. Time is not on Tiger’s side.
“so close, he’s almost back, he’ll be passing Jack’s record now for sure”
He has a shot, in Eleven years Eldridge will be 50, Jack holds the record with eight Senior Major Championships let the quest begin! Buuwaaahahaha
Keep your eye on the ball, screw the rest.
He’s got the latter part down.
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