Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Tiger has a serious decision to make...and it won't be easy!

OK, he's taken a few months off from golf to get his personal life straightened out, and while he's far from done on that front, Tiger Woods also has some serious professional decisions to make. Tiger has done some amazing things on the golf course...truly amazing things, but if he is going to pass Jack's record of 18 professional majors and be considered the greatest player of all time (goals he has made no bones about setting), he needs to learn how to drive the ball consistently. He may eventually pass Jack without fixing his tee ball issues, but considering how he can dominate a course from the short grass, he could win 24 or 5 majors if he could just FIND THE DAMN FAIRWAY!!!

He needs to present Hank Haney with an ultimatum : Fix my driver swing or YOU'RE FIRED!!!

It isn't any more complicated than that. Phil has added SIGNIFICANT yardage and accuracy in recent years, and there is really no reason Tiger can't do the same thing, especially given his fitness level and work ethic. If he ever does manage to combine those two consistently, everyone else truly will be playing for 2nd place (and they all know it, believe me!). He placed T4 at The Masters and hit less than 50% of the fairways; had he hit 75%, he would have likely shot nearly 20 under par and blown the field away (Phil would have NEVER shot 67 on Sunday if he had started the day 3 shots behind Tiger).