If Tiger Woods is worried about his golf game, he isn't acting like it.
Reuters is reporting that the former No. 1 and current No. 56 golfer in the world still is trying to adjust to a new swing that new coach Chris Como has taught him, and that is the basis for his major struggles in his play that led to his career-worst 82 at the Waste Management Phoenix Open last week that prevented him from getting close to making the cut.
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Golfchannel.com reported that Woods again was erratic in the pro-am event at Torrey Pines in advance of the Farmers Insurance Open that starts today.
Woods said his problem is that he is in mid-transfer from his previous swing to his new swing, which is causing his inconsistent play.
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"I'm always making progress," he said Wednesday at Torrey Pines, according to golfchannel.com. "It's just that I still need to stick with it and keep doing it. I'm caught right dead in between (swing patterns). They are so polar opposites, the movement patterns, that when I do half of one or half of the other, it's pretty bad."
According to golfchannel.com, Woods hit just two of nine fairways in the fog-shortened pro-am event Wednesday. He missed several greens and spent extra time chipping and pitching around the greens.
But because it's February and not April, Woods sounds as if he knows he's working through a process that eventually should yield results.
"I'm battling through that, battling through those times and trying to come with feel, even if I do happen to make a bad swing," he said, according to Reuters. "I want to get this. I want to be ready come Augusta and the rest of the majors, but we still got some work to do."
One analyst said that Woods has a pattern of playing worse immediately after undergoing a swing change, which he has done multiple times during his career.
"Each time he made a change of instructors, from childhood to Butch Harmon, from Butch to Hank Haney, from Haney to Sean Foley and now Foley to Como it seems like there's a regression before there is progression, but each time the regression has gotten worse and this time it's the worst," said Peter Kostis, a golf analyst for CBS Sports and instructor, according to PGATour.com. "I'm not in the camp that thinks he has the yips. That's preposterous. But I do think he is playing around certain shots until he feels comfortable with them."
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