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Tiger Woods happy with driver, not with iron play, at Players C'ship

By Brian Biggane
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Tiger Woods happy with driver, not with iron play, at Players C'ship

 
PONTE VEDRA BEACH – Tiger Woods achieved a milestone of sorts Sunday.
 
For the first time in 19 months, he finished back-to-back tournaments. The last time that had happened was the BMW Championship and Tour Championship in September 2013.
 
The Jupiter Island resident overcame the first triple bogey in his 16 appearances at The Players Championship to shoot an even-par 72 for a 3-over total of 291 and a tie for 69th place among the 75 players who finished the event.
 
"It was a mixed bag pretty much all week," he said of his performance, which also included two double bogeys on par 5s on Saturday, a career first. "A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad. What did I have, three 7s on the week? That's not very good."
 
In a sense, his season has only just begun. After taking three weeks off, he plans to play four times in seven weeks: the Memorial (June 4-7), U.S. Open (June 18-21), Greenbrier Classic (July 2-5) and British Open (July 16-19).
 
"We're progressing," he said, reflecting on his tie for 17th at the Masters last month and this week. "It's a matter of putting the pieces together first. I mean, look at where it was on the West Coast to where I am now. So let's just keep progressing, putting the pieces together, keep chipping away at it.
 
"We had some glaring weaknesses at the beginning of the year; those are now gone, and now we can start cleaning up the other stuff, too."
 
Woods said he was generally happy with his driver at TPC Sawgrass but disappointed with his iron play.
 
"Normally, I'm a pretty good iron player and I can get the ball in there tight," he said. "I had a lot of clubs where I was 8-iron on down and didn't stiff them. That's something I've got to do a little better on."
 
This article was written by Brian Biggane from The Palm Beach Post and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.