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5 takeaways from Tiger Woods’ press conference in Mexico City
Tiger Woods spoke with the media in Mexico City at a news conference on Tuesday for the Bridgestone America’s Golf Cup, which he was slated to participate in before a September microdiscectomy surgery derailed those plans.
It’s been little more than a month since the former world No. 1 went under the knife, and it’s worth noting that it took him three months to return from the same surgery in 2014. However, both Woods and golf fans seem to agree at this point that he came back too soon, and that fact seems to have tempered any rush to return TW might be feeling
Here are the five things you need to know from his remarks.
1) He hasn’t begun rehab yet
“I feel good, I’m just stiff; that’s the way it is after surgery. I haven’t been allowed to do much of anything.”
“I’ll start my rehab soon, but it’s a long and tedious process. The last time, it took me a long time to come back. Some of the guys who have had it [microdiscectomy] done said it took them over a year to be pain free. I hope it doesn’t take me that long to be pain free.”
2) He’s committed to taking as much time as necessary to recover and is sick of fighting through pain on course
“I need to be healthy. I tried to fight through some stuff this year and it wasn’t a lot of fun and I was in that much pain. On top of that, my first back operation, I was also in the midst of changing my swing, too. It was a tough situation to go through that.”
3) He wasn’t practicing much last year
“I can’t practice as much. I went most of last season [like that]. Then the last time, I played very well. It’s just a matter of me getting healthy enough to go out and play.’”
4) Recovery is going to “take months of hard work”
“There’s a process. Little stuff before I can get stronger. Then I have to get explosive. Then I have to do it for a long period of time. And then playing like that for a long period of time I don’t know how many months that it’s going to be. But it won’t be short. It’ll take months of hard work.”
5) He doesn’t expect his swing to change
“Difference after this surgery is that my swing won’t change.”
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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a set of Cobra Forged One Length irons.
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In our forums, our members have been discussing Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons which he has in the bag at this week’s CJ Cup. WRXers have been commenting on the switch and the clubs themselves in our forums.
For lots more photos, check out the full thread here.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- btyh: “Holy offset.”
- Glf_LU: “These are interesting. Not going to make a rush to judgement until I see them in person. It does look like a little more offset than I would expect to see in this model.”
- bcflyguy1: “Kisner is not one to make a lot of equipment changes (see the GBB driver he’s still using), so if these do have staying power in his bag that will be interesting to see. I have to wonder if there’s something different about his set, because like others have mentioned there appears to be more offset on his than I recall seeing in the samples I’ve had in hand.”
Entire Thread: “Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons”
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As part of a Srixon campaign, four PGA Tour players recently participated in a three-hole challenge, with each hole being a different game; hole No. 1 was blindfolded, hole No. 2 was costumes and distractions, and hole No. 3 was alternate shot with a baseball bat. The teams were Smylie Kaufman and Sam Ryder against Shane Lowry and Grayson Murray.
Watch the full video below, since it is quite entertaining (albeit not the type of golf that Old Tom Morris surely had in mind), but in particular, make sure to check out the first hole where Lowry and Ryder play a full hole completely blind folded. It’s amazing to watch how badly Ryder struggles, and how Lowry nearly makes par.
What happens when 4 #PGATOUR pros take a day off?
Luckily, the cameras were rolling.
Watch @shanelowrygolf, @graysonmurray, @smyliekaufman10, and @samrydersu in #SrixonVS. pic.twitter.com/C4LJwQgmZ7— Srixon (@SrixonGolf) June 25, 2018
Cleveland-Srixon’s marketing department has been hard at work crafting these viral-esque ad campaigns; if you remember, former long-drive champion Jamie Sadlowski recently dressed as 80-year-old Grandpa Jamie to fool range-goers. That video has since gathered over 1.2 million views on YouTube.
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Talk Talk
Oct 22, 2015 at 4:46 pm
He’s been great at talking ever since he stood up in front of the world to apologize for his sexapades. Talking.
Alien
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:11 pm
He has to talk to himself, he has nobody left he alienated them all including his mother
The Infidel
Oct 22, 2015 at 7:33 am
With any luck this will mean that his glutes are permanently fired and he can get 900% explosive 1000% of the time.
My biggest fear is that TW believes his own BS. If he does then he’s lost forever…..
KK
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:13 pm
The average NFL career length is 3 years. Average NBA is 5 years. Let’s say the average PGA career length is about 7 years, which is probably generous. That means Tiger has not won a major for two PGA generations. He is beyond done. No wonder Tiger keeps changing everything about his game. It’s that or just give up and retire. Pretty sad when you look at it that way. He’s the Kobe of the PGA.
john
Oct 22, 2015 at 1:40 am
I’d say the average TOP PGA players career is closer to north of 40 years including juniors and champions tours, you’re flat out wrong there fella. Where you’re right is that in the past players weren’t hitting the gym everyday like they do today – thus an athlete in another sport could be comparable. HOWEVER in golf, power is very very far from everything, just ask Jordan Spieth who is close to 30 yards shorter than the most powerful players.
Steve
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:37 am
You are flat at wrong from what you posted. PGA tour career is what he posted. Not junior and senior golf. MLB players have 30 year careers if you consider the little league. Doesnt make sense.
chubbs
Oct 22, 2015 at 11:23 am
Jack, Arnold, Gary Player, Tom Watson and others have had 40+ year careers. Tom Watson has played in the majors for 40+ years finishing 2nd at age 60 in the open.
Tiger is gonna have trouble walking at age 60
Clint
Oct 21, 2015 at 10:58 pm
It amazes me to read the comments of some readers. This guy single handedly changed the pay scale of PGA players, set records that will take years to be broken or even matched, yet it seems so easy for some readers to play him off. Regardless of what he did in his private life, he is still one of the best players to ever play the game. Let he who is without sin, throw the first stone!
Dr Troy
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:00 pm
+1
KK
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:05 pm
And yet you are judging others for judging. Who are you to say others shouldn’t judge when you are doing the same?
Canuck.
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:48 pm
KK – Rick Reilly is that you?
Clint I am on ur side. There are pretty much two athletes that you ask anyone in the world and everyone will know. One is Tiger Woods the other is Michael Jordan.
Dunnaw
Oct 22, 2015 at 3:16 am
Who’s Michael Jordan? I don’t know who is. Never heard of him. What sport did he play?
Steve
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:32 am
I dont think anyone is talking about his private life. The facts are he is over 300 in the golf rankings. And the reasons for poor play are just getting boring. This is a overdone story. He is legendary no one can deny that. But you want to watch him struggle around the course, miss cuts because you refuse to let go?
Steve
Oct 21, 2015 at 8:15 pm
If next year is the same as this year. He should seriously think of hanging it up. Before he becomes irrelevant, if he hasn’t already. He is one of the most legendary sports figures of all time, but it is becoming pathetic. Who would want to watch Secretariat limp around the track race after race.
farmer
Oct 21, 2015 at 4:23 pm
His swing will change. If he was compensating for pain, without the pain, the compensations will have to be eliminated, and his swing will change. How he manages the changes will be the key.
Jay
Oct 21, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Unfortunately, more of the same.
Clank
Oct 21, 2015 at 2:18 pm
Age always wins……
Dr Troy
Oct 21, 2015 at 11:01 pm
+1…unfortunately true
ooffa
Oct 21, 2015 at 12:38 pm
I hope he had a yipectomy
Charlie
Oct 21, 2015 at 10:44 am
Hopefully the doctors removed the ability to get stuck in the downswing.
Ian Harris
Oct 21, 2015 at 2:32 pm
You sound like Brandel…Tigers club is very consistently out in front of him.
larrybud
Oct 21, 2015 at 9:14 pm
Not with the driver.