Does Woods need a mallet?

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After yet another poor week on the greens isn't it time Tiger started using a mallet?
He has clearly reached that age when the memory of too many missed putts overpowers the memory of the good putts made and he is getting decidedly wobbly with the flatstick.
Personally I'd love to see him turn out with an Odyssey 3 ball. I reckon he'd make more putts than with those Scotty blade things he uses.
What about a broomhandle......maybe a step too far? :o
 
No - crazy idea Woods is the best putter around his bad week on the greens means he comes 2nd.

In any case I don't think a mallet would suit his putting stroke as a Mallet is designed for a straight back straight through stroke, where woods lets the face open and shut.
 
I think we all open and close the putter clubface 'saloon door' style at least a little bit don't we?
 
The thing is though, he is missing some putts that three or four years ago would have been meat and drink to him.
 
Tiger unlike other pro golfers plays purely to win tournaments, money is no object to him so a cheque for 2nd or 3rd gives him no incentive. When he is putting he has all of that extra pressure where other lesser players aren't really bothered if they come top 20 cos all they need is money. Putting is easier when you don't have to make em.
 
Tiger unlike other pro golfers plays purely to win tournaments, money is no object to him so a cheque for 2nd or 3rd gives him no incentive. When he is putting he has all of that extra pressure where other lesser players aren't really bothered if they come top 20 cos all they need is money. Putting is easier when you don't have to make em.
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I think the pressure for a struggling pro to put food on his family's table or avoid qualifying school has just as much pressure associated with it as a putt to expand TW's trophy cabinet. TW as you say has no financial pressure at all, just ego pressure.

His putting displays this season at times have been poor, for him anyway.

There's no shame in swinging a mallet you know! ;)
 
I dont think any golfer should change simply because of a few bad putts or a bad putting round.

Tiger is arguably the best putter out there and his poor putting is often as good as the rest of the fields best.

I admire any golfer who sticks with stuff rather than rushing down the 'new club' shop the moment they miss hit a couple.
 
One of the reasons he is one of the best putters out there is that he has had the same putter since he turned pro, and before. Many of us (Homer?) could learn from this.

Oh, and mallets suck. Alot.
 
Ive noticed when Tiger putts especially the last two tournaments he pulls a lot of putts and misses way to the left. When Tiger made a putt this week it was a good putt line over line so maybe it is time for a mallet or maybe work on ball position with the short stick.
 
Why should it be the putter and not that he's just misreading? He openly admitted that he was struggling to read the breaks at Liberty National.
 
Best puuting stroke in the game, changing to a mallet isn't going to help his green reading, which is usually 2nd to none. Normal service will be resumed shortly. :D
I also think it did his temperament good to lose, he seemed more like his old self, and less uptight and arrogant in the post round interview. :cool:
 
Following on from what Murph said, about how often we change putters. Here's a little survey I did on here a little while ago about how often folks change their clubs. These are the results from the putter section.



Less than 6 months 23 31.51%
6 months to year 13 17.81%
1 to 2 years 17 23.29% 72.60%
2 to 3 years 4 5.48%
3 to 4 years 5 6.85%
4 to 5 years 0 0.00%
5 years plus 11 15.07%
Total Votes 73

So 72.6% of us have putters that are less than 2 years old!

While there are 15% of us with putters over 5 years old. I guess that they're the guys that have a good solid putting stroke, and they've learnt how to use it properly.

As someone said. Indians and arrows!
 
No. He was misreading the greens, he was asking Williams for his advise this week than he normally would. Even david Feherty commented on this.

If i had one man to make a 10 footer to save my life i would take Tiger over anyone modern pro.
 
Having worked my putting back from real depths of despair (yes Murph I've had a few putters but I needed to try and find something that worked - I was on the vege of quitting two years ago) and gone from mallets (only a odyssey two ball which was a blade style anyway and a itsy spider) to a blade.

I was using an odyssey dualforce 554 which on our summer greens suited me perfectly for pace. However since they have been tined and knowing how slow they are in winter I wanted something a bit heavier and so invested in a rossa daytona.

I have to say if it wasn't for the help of my teaching pro and a lot of hard work with a new and correct technique making sure my alignment is correct (and not shoulders pointing right and hips and feet left) and my head over the ball I'm pretty sure I would have given up in frustration. I was averaging at one point 38 putts per round and 3 and 4 putting from 10 feet and in sometimes.

Woods is a decent putter. He's not the greatest but I'd back him on most five footers for a major. I'm sure it was a problem reading the greens and not with the stroke and so he'll be back next week. If he feels there was an issue this week be sure he's already working on the fix
 
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