Tiger Wouldn’t Have Won the Family Putting Title
Here’s an interesting item in Tiger’s interview last Wednesday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Apparently, Tiger’s father Earl can out-putt Tiger. That’s amazing.
Q. How much influence did your father have on your putting stroke, and could you talk about the nature of that influence?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, Dad had everything to do with my putting stroke. How I putt now is how I've always putted as a kid. I look at the picture, how I get my feel, the drills that I do, everything has been taught by my dad.
When I go out there and practice my putting, like I did at Doral, I didn't putt well, I didn't make any putts, I went back to all my basics that my dad taught me. It's good times, good memories going back to all those different things and remember all those different times. But my dad has laid the foundation for my stroke.
And even I remember in some of the good years I've had in golf, like '99, 2000, 2001, coming back to southern California I'd take my dad out and we'd go putt, and he'd routinely beat me. Anything he said about putting, I'd always listen. He just had a wonderful feel, a wonderful touch, and I really understood how to make the ball roll consistently each and every time.