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| Tiger Woods returns after four months and says new swing feels fantastic | Tiger Woods returns after four months and says new swing feels fantastic |
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| Tiger Woods pronounced himself fit for a return to competitive golf while acknowledging the ravages of age as he prepared to tee up for the first time in nearly four months at the Hero World Challenge tournament. | Tiger Woods pronounced himself fit for a return to competitive golf while acknowledging the ravages of age as he prepared to tee up for the first time in nearly four months at the Hero World Challenge tournament. |
| Having not played since the PGA Championship in August, the 38-year-old American returns to action on Thursday near his Florida home at the Isleworth Golf and Country Club in a tournament benefiting his foundation. | Having not played since the PGA Championship in August, the 38-year-old American returns to action on Thursday near his Florida home at the Isleworth Golf and Country Club in a tournament benefiting his foundation. |
| All eyes will be on a creaky back that limited Woods to only eight events last season when he missed the cut twice and withdrew from two others. | All eyes will be on a creaky back that limited Woods to only eight events last season when he missed the cut twice and withdrew from two others. |
| The former world No1 underwent back surgery in March and, despite long periods of rest and rehabilitation, could not return to full fitness. He missed the Masters and US Open, withdrawing from the WGC Bridgestone Invitational and missing the cut at the US PGA Championship. | |
| “I’m older,” Woods said, drawing laughs from reporters at a news conference on Tuesday. “Father Time is undefeated. We all eventually are losing some of the things we are able to do when we were younger.” | |
| This was no capitulation, just an acknowledgment from Woods that he needed to try another way. He returns having switched to the consultant Chris Como from the swing coach Sean Foley. | |
| “We all have to make adaptations as athletes and we have to make adjustments,” said Woods, who believes he has more winning golf in him. “Like MJ [Michael Jordan] created a fade away. He couldn’t jump over everybody any more and he created a new way to score and get points. | |
| “I’m the same way. I can’t blow it out there with some of the longer guys any more. Back when I was younger a long ball was 290 [yards] in the air. Now it’s 320, 325. I don’t have that.” | |
| Woods said his ageing body would not allow him to fire from positions Foley wanted to put into his swing. | Woods said his ageing body would not allow him to fire from positions Foley wanted to put into his swing. |
| Fans and fellow golfers will get their first look at Woods’ revamped swing on Thursday when he partners the Australian Jason Day in the 18-player invitational. | |
| “We looked at a lot of video from when I was a junior and in amateur golf,” said Woods about time spent with Como. “It was quite interesting to see where my swing was then and how much force I could generate with a very skinny frame. That’s kind of what we are getting back into. It feels great. It feels fantastic.” | |