False Alarm: Woods Just Tweaking His Backup Putter Fleet; Nike Reps Flood Norton Pubs Overnight

Doug Ferguson tells us Tiger Woods was not mulling a putter change, but instead merely fixing his back up set of Nike putters to his weird grip configuration should his Scotty Cameron (A) accidentally get dragged from the back of Tiger's Buick Enclave, as Dan Jenkins suggested he do, or (B) get dropped in a lake by Stevie.

Woods was only checking the alignment of the grip on his backup putter. He prefers it to be 1 degree to the right, which slightly closes the blade on impact. This grip was too square, and the glue had already dried before Woods could twist it where he wanted it.

He has several backup putters, which hardly anyone ever mentions.

"That's because I haven't needed it," Woods said.

Comments

[Fusilli Jerry]

Oh, thank god!

[kenoneputt]

I know it's hard to criticize the best player in the world, but my dad--a very good putter--used to say, "If you're not putting, change something, even if it's only your underwear."

I just looked up his stats for putts per GIR, and foound something amazing...

Starting in 1999, his place on the list have been
1999- 24
2000 - 2
2001 - 102
2002 - 83
2003 - 10
2004 - 2
2005 - 5
2006 - 35
2007 - 4
2008 - not ranked due to low # of rounds
2009 - 23

It looks like the striped one is prone to the occasional slump in putting. Mybe there's notthing to worry about.

[Average Golfer]

Hope he stockpiled those Ping grips.

[Steven T.]

I predict:

www.nike.com/nikegolf/?resetGlobalID=true

[David Stamm]

Of course. It's never the archer, but the arrow.