Target Practice
/Tuesday's practice round at Sherwood was well attended by media eager to hear Tiger Woods address their questions in advance of the Target World Challenge.
I have to say it was the most boring Tiger press conference I've sat through, though there was one bizarre-bordering-on-awkward moment when Golf Magazine's Cameron Morfit asked a question and Tiger either didn't understand it, or just didn't like it.
Q. You mentioned your skiing; are you a Black Diamond skier these days? Black Diamond, the hardest?
TIGER WOODS: It's not the hardest.
Q. Double Black?
TIGER WOODS: Mmhmm. (Laughter).
Well it was more like (lots of long silence), mhm and (awkward laughter) at the strangeness of it all.
Naturally, I would not drive all the way out there with asking something, so here was my softball that actually seemed to stump him before he launched into his standard (and wonderful) diatribe on modern setup and design. Forgive my lousy phrasing...
Q. Bobby Jones and Jack Nicklaus both when they did their design work, built dream courses or home clubs that hosted tournaments, do you see yourself taking on some sort of a project like that that's maybe your own concept for a course, and maybe it's a club just for your friends; and if so, what kind of course and place would it be?
TIGER WOODS: Yes, and hopefully one day. Obviously you have to get the right situation where you can do that, you can go ahead and design what you think is how golf should be played. For me, I always believe in golf should have open front. You should be able to utilize the ground and don't take away the short game. I play golf courses on Tour and we all see it, miss the green, automatic lobwedge, hack it out of the rough. That to me is not fun golf. Fun golf is Pinehurst. Fun golf is playing links golf. Fun golf is learning to how to maneuver the ball on the ground and give yourself options. One of the hardest up and downs is when you have options. You have so many different ways to play and you see a lot of pros really mess up easy shots because they have so many different options. I think that's taken away from the game of golf now, and ridiculous at how the modern golf courses are designed, that's how they are designed is they have taken that option away and that's too bad.
