Tiger Lexicon Grows...

...or is it jargon?

After his wild-off-the-tee third round:

"I was spinning the ball quite a bit with the driver today and I didn't quite have it right," he said.

Spinning=spraying, no?

And after winning, talking to Australian TV about what he did to get things squared away around round three and in preparation for the final round:

"I did some rehearsals last night and felt very comfortable with what I was going to do today."

Rehearsals=hitting balls?

Any others you've heard?

Comments

[Erik J. Barzeski]

Spinning = backspin. Remember all the shots he hit this year at THE PLAYERS(c)TM(R)? He called those "high spinners" too. A spinner is a shot blocked and ballooned to the right.

Rehearsals = just that - rehearsing a move, perhaps even without a club, perhaps in his hotel or condo or wherever he was staying. You've never practiced your golf swing without a ball in your house?

At least, that's the way I took these things...

[GeorgeM]

I believe ejb is correct.
In the Saturday transcript Woods indicated his problem was with the backswing.
That should be a move easily rehearsed w/o going to the range.
That would also explain why he wanted some range time before arriving at the course Sunday.
He still had some work to do independent of his warm up routine.

[Average Golfer]

Wrong on all counts. He's quitting golf and taking the lead in "Oklahoma". The "spinning" is a dance move.

[SteveL]

I heard both and thought to myself, oh boy, he's using doublespeak now to talk about his game and swing. Don't let Phil hear this, can you imagine the doozies he'd come up with?

[Vince Spence]

He should rehearse not having puerile temper tantrums on the course. He gave 'spraying his driver' a new phrase in the lexicon this weekend in Australia...

[Tim in Hoylake]

Indeed, Vince, indeed. The man has to control his temper. In my eyes, he still doesn't 'compete' any harder than Arnie, but he certainly seems to have had a humour labotomy while on the course, and I don't recall Arnie ever chucking a club into the crowd. R&A - give us a ruling before next year's Open, please.

[JPB]

"spinners" and "rehearsals" go part and parcel with those ridiculous clunky nicknames Woods has for the players he likes on tour.

"Stricks", "Faxie", "Mark-O", "Cookie" and on and on....

[David Mihm]

EJB is right, in my view. I think Tiger uses the word spinning rather than spraying on purpose to mean that he is not getting the kind of flat trajectory with the driver that he normally does.

[On Tour]

Intense. The man is intense. To a fault sometimes.

[Steve Wozeniak PGA]

Spinning is from coming at the ball sideways which he has done off and on since the year 2000, he used to come at the back of the ball year after year before starting to work on stupid stuff....... You can hit it Right, Left or Dead Straight it all depends on the hands...........

Steve Wozeniak PGA

www.stevewozeniak.com

[thusgone]

is a puerile tantrum worse than the other kind?

[Brad]

I read an article by Hank Haney where he said Tiger spends a lot of time with a weighted club "rehearsing" and reinforcing the correct moves.

[Chunky Chipper]

Lookout! Tigger sounds like Johnny Miller's doublespeak apprentice.

[court]

I agree with EJ - except that balls spin left and right, too...and boy can Tiger spin them off to the right.

[jay]

i thought he was just speaking australian

[Erik J. Barzeski]

jay, that reminds me of one of my all-time favorite commercials with the sprig of parsley on top of a big slab of beef: in Australian, it's "salad."

[JT]

After his tantrum and his driver ended up in the crowd I believe his words were "I let go of the club".

I let go of the club = i threw the club really hard into the ground in a fit of rage after a "spinny" shot