Golf Sports Blog > PGA: Tiger Woods: Driving Analysis

http://thesandtrap.com [The Sand Trap .com - Golf News, Reviews, and Opinions for Golfers, By Golfers] While his accuracy has dropped considerably, his yardage hasn't increased substantially. What's worse, the rest of the PGA Tour (indicated in 2000 by blue dots and in 2005 by green) has dramatically increased with little overall impact to driving accuracy:

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Balls, Sticks, & Stuff] Now That is Cool: across an animated graphic that displays the change in Tiger Woods' driving distance and accuracy compared to other PGA Tour players from 2000 to 2005. The creator of the graphic, Paul Kedrosky explains: As you can see, despite the supposed improvement in his game, Tiger's drivingaccuracy has

[The Sports Economist] Why Tiger Missed the Cut: As you can see, despite the supposed improvement in his game, Tiger's driving accuracy has fallen off much more than his driving distance has increased. At the same time, the gap between Woods and the mass of his professional competitors is much smaller than it was five years ago -- the animation shows this nicely, with a great splotch of competitors all closing in on Woods over the period.Go see the flash chart. It shows the trade-off results nicely; it's worth a look.

[Hookedongolf.blogspot.com] Hooked On Golf Blog's FORMER LOCATION: 03/27/2005 - 04/02/2005: Top 40 players from the 2004 PGA Tour money list:@ Stewart Cink, Stephen Ames, Stuart Appleby, Mark Hensby, Rory Sabbatini, Zach Johnson, Chad Campbell, John Daly, Scott Verplank, Jerry Kelly, Darren Clarke, Jay Haas, Kenny Perry, Carlos Franco, Rod Pampling, Tim Herron, Jonathan Kaye, Luke Donald, Ted Purdy, Ryan Palmer, Bo Van Pelt, Jesper Parnevik.

http://www.golfblogger.com [Golfblogger.com] Golf Blogger: Everything Golf: Tiger was at his best when coached by Harmon. At times this weekend, I thought Scott's swing looked eerily like Tiger's of a couple of years ago. Maybe Mr. Woods should swallow his pride and head back to the swing guru.

[Thesportseconomist.com] The Sports Economist: Then there's the painting routine -- taking a high-performance bat that isn't allowed for league play and disguising it as a regulation model.Old sports and new technologies can often be in conflict. One way of addressing the conflict is to go the route of the PGA, by making the courses excruciatingly long and tough. Lengthening amateur ballparks or municipal golf courses is not likely an economic response. So golfers get to enjoy the prospect of more birdies, which at the municipal level is not much of a problem.

[Thegolfblog.com] The Golf Blog: 11/01/2004 - 11/30/2004: Charles Sifford was the first African American to play on the PGA tour. He put up with a lot of hatred and hostility when he played in the 1960s, but he still played, winning one tournament in his PGA career and one on the seniors' tour. Yesterday, Sifford was deservedly inducted into the golf Hall of Fame, also becoming the first African American in its ranks.

[Thegolfblog.com] The Golf Blog: 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004: In other words, watch the interviews after today's round, and I bet those with positive attitudes are the ones to watch, and those who complain about factors of the course will fade away (thus my comment early in the week regarding Clarke). I also predicted Vijay and Mickelson with their driving accuracy would finish better than Els and Tiger, despite Els and Tiger being favored by the oddsmakers. Els is making me look bad, but I'm sticking with my gut feeling. Jerry Kelly hasn't teed off yet, but he is my darkhorse pick...he had the same attitude as Clarke, positive and complimentary of the course.

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