PGA Tour veteran Rocco Mediate throws his weight behind Tiger Woods – Golf news
PGA Tour veteran, Rocco Mediate has come out in support of Tiger Woods ahead of the Frys.com Open scheduled this week at the CordeValle Golf Club in San Martin, California. Mediate strongly believes that Woods will once again rule the Official World Golf
Rankings (OWGR) once he is able to get down with the demons that caused him to slide out of the top-50.
Mediate said, “If he gets his golf swing back, that game's over. Because he knows that once he figures out where his ball is going, it's over. He's already proved it a million — how many times? — 71 times, and 14 majors.”
Mediate was particularly critical of all the changes Woods has incorporated in his swing under the coaching of Hank Haney and Sean Foley. Mediate came close to lifting his first major title in the 2008 US Open in Torrey Pines where an injured Woods who kept
hopping on one leg, took the better off Mediate and denied him the title.
Mediate added, “How did he win that event? Did he win it physically or mentally? Think about what he did. I saw shots from that man at Torrey Pines that I couldn't even imagine hitting. But he just kept walking, whatever. That's greatness.”
Woods will be returning to mainstream golf after a break of 52 days as he recently was in headlines when he broke the course record during a practice round at Medalist Golf Club. He was not able to qualify for the FedExCup Playoff Championship due to his
deteriorated position on the FedExCup Money List. He is battering form vows for a long period of time and has not won a single title since his last victory at the Australian Open in 2009.
Mediate insists that he has not spoken to Woods for a considerable time now but he believes that the former World Number One will surge to glory once again, provided he is able to sort out his swing vows.
The 48-year-old Mediate is one of the senior most members on the tour at the moment and he has been on and off the course since 1985, the year when he turned professional. He has ten professional victories under his belt, six of them coming on the PGA Tour
but has not won a single major in all this time.
Ticket sales for the Frys.com Open have soared to unprecedented levels and the event is now closing in to a sell off two days before the first round. Woods fans that are eager to see him swing back into form are predicted to throng the course all through
the weekend. Woods will tee-off with Open Championship winner, Louis Oosthuizen and amateur, Patrick Cantlay, who has done well in the current season.
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