Tiger’s Omega Dubai press conference: Sunday
Q: Good finish, three birdies?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, unfortunately turned it around too late. I drove it great today; I did all day. Iron game was not as sharp as I’d like and I didn’t make anything. I had seven lipouts today. That’s quite a few lipouts.
Q: Did you learn anything specific this week with your game?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I told you, I just made a quick, easy fix with my grip the other day and from then on drove it great. Still need a little bit of work chipping out of this ryegrass. As I said, I’ve been chipping out of bermuda, it’s a little different technique.
Q: The next two weeks will in any way dictate your schedule, adding any events leading up to Augusta?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I’m going to play every week from here on to the rest of the year. How’s that? (Laughter). We’ll see what happens.
Q: Is it easier to fix the putting than the long game?
TIGER WOODS: The long game was certainly frustrating last week. Definitely made some good putts and this week, just kept lipping everything out. My speed is just a fraction off. The grain would snag is or I would blow right through it and catch a high slice. It’s one of those weeks where I kept lipping everything out.
Q: Talk about the progress you’ve made over the last two weeks?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, as I said, a quick little fix to my grip and that was all good, and the driving was something that I didn’t really do very well last week. This weekend, nice to be able to start piping it out there again and getting it out there with the big boys, when I was– I didn’t have my grip right, obviously I throttled back a little bit, try to get the ball in play, and just don’t hit it as far. I’m able to now start letting it go, a couple of carries out there in the 310, 315 range and I hit over the top of them. So that’s back to where I should be.
Q: (Inaudible.)
TIGER WOODS: I don’t know, I’ve never been. This is my first time so it will be fun and then head home and see my kids.
Q: I know you said you were rooting for the Broncos. Will you watch the game with Freddie?
TIGER WOODS: No, I think he can watch I think the first half maybe, maybe, and he’s got to get that eight-something flight, so he’s got to get out of here. I’ll be able to watch the whole game.
Q: (Inaudible.)
TIGER WOODS: 14 green, I don’t know if that was his first time out there or not. I was playing 5 and saw him over on 14 green when he was playing and to see him over there, I just figured he’d be bored and wanted something to do. Made two straight bogeys.
Q: When you do get home, whenever that is, what will you do? Is it anything different than normal?
TIGER WOODS: No, I’m probably going to work on my lag putting. My lag putting needs to be a little bit better than it has been, get the speed on those putts. But as far as hitting my lines, I’m hitting my lines. I just don’t have the speed just right. Concentrate a little bit more on speed and as I said, I really need to start chipping out of ryegrass.
That’s something that I just need to start doing, because the technique is so different chipping out of bermuda and that’s all I have at the house. Going to have to alter that a little bit.
