Seems like everyone is throwing their opinions around on Tiger Woods' swing trials and tribulations nowadays, including your's truly. Should he ditch swing coach Sean Foley? Should he go back to Butch Harmon or Hank Haney? Does he even need a swing coach at this point in his development? Everyone seems to have a thought, but nobody has the answer.
Not even Tiger himself, it seems.
Let's get something straight first: the only thing anyone would be missing out on if Tiger doesn't get his game back on a consistent track is seeing history by breaking Jack's major record. In order to do so, Woods really only has to win a handful of more tournaments in his career. He doesn't have to win every week, and nobody (besides Tiger) cares how many PGA TOUR victories he ends up with when he retires. Majors are the only thing that matter now.
So how does Tiger get back to his major-winning form? The talking heads have their theories.
Nick Faldo believes Tiger's confidence is completely shot despite having won at Bay Hill earlier this season. "The real bottom line is for me, (Woods) just doesn't have the self-belief, the self-confidence that he obviously had, the Tiger of old, simple as that," Faldo said during a recent media call prior to The Players Championship. Tiger didn't seem to like that very much, claiming that he found it "interesting, since (Faldo and others) aren't in my head".
Brandel Chamblee thinks Sean Foley is to blame for Tiger's swinging woes (no pun intended) and that a return to Butch Harmon is the answer: "Simply, he needs to fire Sean (Foley), call Butch (Harmon)," Chamblee said Tuesday during the same media call. "I think that would get it done right there."
Even Woods' long-time friend and mentor Mark O'Meara had a few thoughts on what he believes will benefit Tiger the most.
"I just think he needs to just play the game and quit over-thinking, quit over-reacting," O'Meara stated on Monday. "I think he's definitely got a lot on his plate and he needs to get out there and just play.
'I just don't know if he can ever dominate like he once did because...the intimidation factor's probably not as great as it once was,' O'Meara said about the perception that Woods' mere presence on the leader board would cause his opponents to wilt. 'I don't know if he'll ever get to where I think he could have gotten.'
At this point it appears that Tiger can do nothing right in the eyes of many despite maintaining a spoken confidence in himself during media events and prior to tournaments. His actions and body-language on the course may appear to contradict that confidence most of the time, but as Woods said himself, we're "not in his head".
Maybe being too much in his own head is the problem, afterall?
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