From left, Dan Hicks, Tiger Woods and Smylie Kaufman on Sunday on NBC.
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Possibly the PNC Championship tease you, as you’ve each loved when he and his son have participated within the main winner-family member affair, and also you marvel when he’ll play once more, interval. However Tiger Woods was coy on Sunday. He provided simply two phrases as as to if he’ll seem in two weeks’ time.
“We’ll see.”
Hey, it wasn’t a no, although it wasn’t a sure.
Then there have been the 15-time main winner’s ideas on the dude at the moment presenting a helluva imitation of him, and sure, even Woods was wowed by Scottie Scheffler, his phrases seemingly plucked from one-time odes stated about him. Think about:
“His consistency each week, he doesn’t actually do something incorrect.”
“You see his footwork and all these various things, contortions he will get into, however in case you stand behind him and also you watch ball flight, it’s very tight both method, left to proper, proper to left, and he strikes it up and down simply both method.”
“His iron recreation might be the very best on tour, and he hits it pin-high each time he chooses to be pin-high.”
“Sure, he’s making a big quantity of birdies, however he’s not making any errors. No doubles. No unfastened bogeys right here and there. Typically he goes complete tournaments with out three-putts, possibly one three-putt. These are all simply easy, easy errors he can simply clear up, and in case you try this over the course of time, you’ll put your self in a variety of positions, and in case you’re capable of put your self in a variety of positions, you’ll be able to [win] a pair.”
Attention-grabbing, for certain. The musings got here throughout Woods’ look on NBC, throughout its broadcast of the ultimate spherical of the Hero World Problem, the end-of-year occasion he hosts. The back-and-forths in these boards are sometimes lighter — Woods most likely wouldn’t agree to come back on dwell TV to be grilled — however as a result of they’re, he’s arguably a bit looser, and also you get the occasional nugget, such because the PNC replace, or the Scheffler opinion.
Or the revelation that his recreation as soon as contained one thing you’d hear from high-handicappers, or the non-Tiger Woodses.
Yeah, Woods stated he as soon as had a little bit of a baseball swing.
The perception got here after Woods was proven a video of the footwork of Scheffler and Justin Thomas. Scheffler, as you may’ve seen by now, employs a so-called Scheffler shuffle upon contact, the place his proper foot kicks again and his left foot twists. Thomas, in the meantime, engages floor forces as a lot as anybody.
Mentioned announcer Dan Hicks: “Properly, there are alternative ways to method this recreation. That is sort of been the fashionable take a look at footwork, Tiger. We’re going to point out you a cut up display right here of Scottie Scheffler on the left, Justin Thomas on the suitable. This was not your model, however these guys are doing it a unique method. There’s a variety of moonwalking occurring right here.”
Woods, although, admitted he as soon as performed a bit like Thomas.
“No, I used to be like JT earlier in my profession,” he stated on the published. “, I used to be one of many first ones to leap like that off the bottom. That was in that era the place it was the reverse ‘C’ — nicely, the ‘Ok’ after which the ‘C.’ I didn’t try this.
“I imply, I had a variety of baseball in me. My baseball swing obtained into my golf swing, and I had that pure foot motion like JT. I used to be at all times small and thin. So I wanted to make use of the bottom to get velocity and energy.”
Later, after a Thomas tee shot, Woods was proven one other video of his toes.
“Yeah, stand on that proper toe, transfer, wheel on that left heel, prolong the left knee — and that’s the way you get velocity.”
Good to know.
