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Tiger Woods is not the NO.1 golf player any more as we all know. But will he thrive in the Arnold Palmer Invitational starts on Thursday at Bay Hill in Orlando. He will compete with Dustin Johnson in the opening two rounds and last week's winner Gary Woodland.
Johnson ranks second to Bubba Watson on this season's statistics with an average of 311.8 yards per drive, while Woodland is eighth at 299.5 yards. Woods is not that far behind. He averages 297.9 by taylormade burner 2.0.But it's a new game now. The game has really changed .it's gotten long. The next two days is a perfect example of where the game has changed. Two guys who used to play basketball is playing golf now .
"We are finally going to get athletes. Guys who can dunk. Guys could have played baseball or could have played football, but they are playing golf instead." "I don't have the gears that those guys do. When I hit it solid with discount golf equipment and they hit it solid obviously they are going to be longer." I'm not as tall as they are, certainly not as big." Woods said.
What should be worrying more, however, is not how far he hits it, but how straight and how he fares on the greens. With figures like that it is no wonder the world number five has gone 16 months without a victory, but he believes that by remembering his younger days he will be more effective with his putter again.
"I went back to all of my old stuff that my dad and I used to work on," he said yesterday on the eve of his last event before The Masters in a fortnight. "And that's when I felt that my stroke started becoming more sound, more solid, my speed became better. "It feels natural, because I've done it for so long. I just got away from it and now I'm going back to it. "I don't know what that dude saw in my game, but he really knew putting and he knew my stroke. My dad really knew my stroke. "I miss him for a lot more reasons than just the putting, but as far as bouncing ideas off of him and what I was feeling and what he would say, I do miss that certainly."
Woods Dating His New Girlfriend earlier days ago,and will he be the top again?Let's concentrate the game in Orlando.
