Golf Update: Tiger's over confidence of being on the Ryder Cup, being the captains pick to save him
Despite a terrible season, Tiger Woods still believes that he can be of some help to the US Ryder cup team. Although, this is quite the opposite of what the Captain of the Ryder cup and the golf fraternity believes.
This is no doubt, the longest drought of Tiger Woods career of constant failures and to add a flavour of consistency he lost the PGA championship as well. This is the same championship in which Tiger Woods holds the title of winning four times. However, he could not manage to get into the 7th position or better, which was the pre requisite of getting into the Ryder cup team. After this bizarre situation Tiger Woods is expecting a favour from Corey Pavin , the captain of the Ryder cup team to select him as the captains pick on the 7th of September , 2010.
According to the media reports, Tiger Woods game is getting better as compared to the last weeks. If he gives more attention to his putting, the player will surely be an asset to the team. Not to forget Tiger Woods finished at 2-under 286 with a net 73 on Sunday, which happens to be his worst round of the week.
The turbulence in the world’s number one’s personal life has tumbled over onto the golf course. It can be seen from the performances delivered by him ever since June. He shot a horrific 18-over 298 and managed to come at the second last spot in the 80-man field at the Firestone country club. As a token for remembrance, this is the same course in which Tiger Woods has won seven times. It seems every course that was kind of sacred to him has disappointed tiger badly. Starting from the most favourite course that was the old course in St Andrews, in which Tiger could not show up in the top 10 even, then it was the firestone and now Whistling Straits.
However, Tiger Woods was practicing quite enough before the tournament began; in fact, he hired a swing coach, Sean Foley to guide him of his weakness. As a result, Tiger Woods name was seen on the North West half of the leader board for the first time in 8 rounds. He continued it with a 70 to the second round and this was the first time since the Memorial that he has broken par in two consecutive rounds. After this progress, Tiger plans to meet the coach on regular basis although he has a phobia of sticking with the same entity for a longer time; be that a coach or wife. Tiger Woods has been practicing without a coach ever since he parted his ways with Hank Haney back in May. Both were together on the field for 6 years. Other than these two, Tiger Woods has worked with Butch Harmon, but it lasted until 2003.
According to the experts, Tiger Wood could not back his Saturday’s scores on Sunday, although he started really quick with three birdies on the first four holes. Tiger was good with irons, but he seems to have problem with his driver, although he delivered few satisfactory drives at a good range but later crumbled. Still there is a progress in his game. Tiger Woods has a record of 10 consecutive majors with victories but this season there are no chances of a successful major and if this holds true then it will be the longest grand slam drought of his career.
Ryder cup selection is in the air and the first 8 players have been shortlisted based on their FedEx ranking , however, Tiger Woods name is not in the list but this does not mean he will leave any card unfold and give up on the last chance of making a cut in a major. He is trying his level best to convince the captain Corey Pavin to pick him up but just imagine what if there wouldn’t have been a car crash and Tiger Woods infidelity would not have been revealed, the whole story would have been different.
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