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# WGC-Cadillac Championship: Tiger Woods goes on the defensive as he struggles
to get in the swing
## A vision of Tiger Woods chasing around the mansion in the exclusive
Florida suburb of Isleworth, after the kids, dashing off to birthday parties,
writing thank-you notes, flashed across the lawn by the 18th green at Doral.
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Getting in the swing: Tiger Woods chips onto the 12th green during practice
for the Cadillac Championship in Doral, Florida
[![Kevin Garside][2]][3]
By [Kevin Garside][4] 7:44PM GMT 09 Mar 2011
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In his penultimate tournament before the Masters next month, **[Woods][7]**
was asked why he did not enter more events to groove the swing changes he is
making.
"Because I have a family. I am divorced. If you had been divorced with kids
you would understand," Woods said. You would be correct in detecting a drop of
acid in the reply.
Though the paternal indignation was plausible, Woods's marital state is not
the issue.
That someone might question the Woods way was the trigger, the thing that
irked him. What Woods was really saying in that answer was this: what do you
know, and who are you to ask?
As ever it is about power and control with Woods. All other pre-tournament
interviews at the Cadillac Championship were conducted in the media suite.
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Woods was accommodated by the 18th green, where snap interviews take place
during the event, immediately after his practice round.
The comparison with former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, as in the
rise and fall, offered by Johnny Miller leading golf analyst for American
broadcaster NBC Sports, raised a smile.
"Well I don't think I'm as big as he is. That's Johnny being Johnny, making
statements like that."
If Miller's coupling of Woods with a convicted rapist was a stretch, the issue
of decline is not. Woods insists that his reconstruction is progressing nicely
under Sean Foley.
He has a backer in Jack Nicklaus. The hunting down of the Golden Bear's 18
majors by Woods is the great theme of the age. Nicklaus said this week he
believes Woods will get the four he needs. Woods liked the validation.
"It's nice to have Jack say that. I respect the heck out of Jack, what he has
done and the person he is. And for him to believe that I can still play top-
notch golf is a confidence booster there's no doubt."
Foley will be relieved, too. The Nicklaus testimony reinforces Foley's
defences in the face of increasing criticism in the golfing community, not
least from Lee Trevino, who suggested that the remedy for Woods's ills is to
sack his instructor.
The statistics are damning. In three tournaments contested this year Woods is
ranked 185th in driving accuracy and 79th in greens in regulation. "It takes
time. I have been through these periods before and they have all been
challenging," Woods said.
Woods is grouped with Graeme McDowell and his great non-friend, Phil
Mickelson, on Thursday, the first time that has happened in the opening rounds
of a tournament outside a major for 13 years.
McDowell, at No 4 in the world, carries the highest rank, if not the prestige,
of his partners. The Northern Irishman shot a course-record 64 on the final
day of the Honda Classic last week, the kind of form that did for Woods at the
Chevron World Challenge in December.
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