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Tiger Woods...Hero World Challenge

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I don't think you can read too much into it until after round 2.
Impressive start but a less tban impressive finish.
With the likes of DJ and Henrik well under par he's already playing catch up.
And mentally thats hard work....
 
I didn't see any, I do see a leaderboard that doesn't lie, Tiger is 17th of 18 players. Probably 1 better than many expected. Still, it's only round 1.
 
Imurg said:
I don't think you can read too much into it until after round 2.
Impressive start but a less tban impressive finish.
With the likes of DJ and Henrik well under par he's already playing catch up.
And mentally thats hard work....
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I'm not sure it's a case of catch up as even Woods will be realistic enough to know he won't beat form players. I'd be more concerned how mentally tired he looked and may do again tomorrow but surely that's going to come with more game time. That said though, with cuts in future events he'll still need to find a way to make a score
 
No rest for Tiger, out first with Justin Rose today. Think he'll go under par today, showed enough yesterday to suggest he can get rid of the ring rust and improve his scoring.
Re over sweating do we think he's pumped full of painkillers to play?
 
Not a bad effort considering he didn't feel confident to play in public a month ago. Looks like he's got the one miss now, left, as opposed to the two way situation he was in before. That's progress. Didn't manage that miss on the course very well though opting to let the driver dictate two doubles. He'll need an iron constitution to decide when to throttle back to a long iron or three wood and commit to that strategy. Spieth is a great current exemplar of that - just as Tiger was at his peak interestingly.
 
Nothing wrong with that opening round for me. Like he said he made some mental mistakes on the back 9, but that will go as the round come. As Tiger likes to say its a process and we'll see how he does today but getting in 4 round now will give him a chance to see where he needs to work on before his next outing.
 
Like Niklaus said it's all between the ears now for Tiger.... a few bad shots and he seemed to welt a bit- I think all it needs is a couple of really good rounds and a bit of confidence will breed confidence. Still not sure he can ever win another major but think he could possibly compete and win some events
 
Garush34 said:
Nothing wrong with that opening round for me. Like he said he made some mental mistakes on the back 9, but that will go as the round come. As Tiger likes to say its a process and we'll see how he does today but getting in 4 round now will give him a chance to see where he needs to work on before his next outing.
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Really? Except the 2 doubles in the last 3 holes to finsih maybe?
 
Val said:
Really? Except the 2 doubles in the last 3 holes to finsih maybe?
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Yeah really, to think that he was going to come back and not have some bad holes is delusional. Yeah they are bad and shouldn't have happened but at the end of the day, he's not played competitively in 15 months there are going to be mistakes. He showed that he still has the game to play, with the front 9 33, he just lacked the mental practice that comes with being out of the game from so long. A 1 over par round is good all things considered.
 
It's a shame he let it go over the last few holes. I'd watched up until about 13-14 I think and seemed to be doing well, couple of mistakes but that was to be expected.

Didn't watch the final few holes so was surprised when I saw he was 1 over when I got up this morning as I was expecting him to be about 2-3 under.

From what I saw his swing looked really good. No violence in there. Putting look pretty good 2. But as I say didn't see what happened over the last 3-4 holes.
 
Liked the look of the new swing, very under control.

Better than I expected. Bet he filled his trousers when he went 4 under after 7!!
 
Garush34 said:
Yeah really, to think that he was going to come back and not have some bad holes is delusional. Yeah they are bad and shouldn't have happened but at the end of the day, he's not played competitively in 15 months there are going to be mistakes. He showed that he still has the game to play, with the front 9 33, he just lacked the mental practice that comes with being out of the game from so long. A 1 over par round is good all things considered.
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I get all that. You said there was nothing wrong with his round when there cleary was, he finished with 2 double bogeys in 3, that is not good at all. Most on here would be disappointed finishing double, par, double.
 
Great start, poor finish.
Overall his swing looked fairly solid, better than I was expecting.
I think he'll get more positives than negatives from round 1.
In football parlance I think he just needs match fitness and that'll take more than just this tournament to achieve.
 
Val said:
I get all that. You said there was nothing wrong with his round when there cleary was, he finished with 2 double bogeys in 3, that is not good at all. Most on here would be disappointed finishing double, par, double.
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Yeah obviously there were issues in the round, no one wants doubles on the card. But there is always going to be rust for him, I didn't see all of his round and missed the whole back 9, but from what I have read it was just a few poor tee shots that cost him the doubles. That's easily fixable for him and it will come with time, reps and more rounds.
 
Slime said:
Great start, poor finish.
Overall his swing looked fairly solid, better than I was expecting.
I think he'll get more positives than negatives from round 1.
In football parlance I think he just needs match fitness and that'll take more than just this tournament to achieve.
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Like the comparison with football, you wouldn't expect an experience mid 30's football to play his best on his comeback after a 15 month lay off. Thought Tiger looked good and in control up until the final holes. Good luck to him, I hope he can continue to play golf at what ever standard.
 
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