Tiger Woods is back at Augusta National on Friday. According to a Golf Channel report (via Yahoo Sports), the former world No. 1 entered the practice range at 8 a.m. ET.
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Just a day before, Woods played a practice round, shooting a 2-over 74 that included five birdies mixed with a poor short-game. That should come as no surprise to Brandel Chamblee. Not only does the Golf Channel analyst believe Woods' short game needs work, he categorized it as "catastrophically bad."
"Given what we've seen, it's unimaginable to me that in this short period of time he would have been able to come to any sort of manageable level of short game," Chamblee said in a Golf Channel teleconference (via Golf). "I read where people said it wasn't the yips. Well, you can call it whatever you want, but it's catastrophically bad, what we saw."
Piling on, Chris DiMarco, Chamblee's fellow analyst, didn't buy into the notion that Woods withdrew from the Farmers Insurance Open due to injury.
"There was no back problem, he was embarrassed to be out there," DiMarco said. "He wasn't doing anything good, and I think there was something wrong and he couldn't take care of it."
"It's easy to say you can fix it at home, chipping with your buddies or whatever," DiMarco added. "But when it's the first hole at Augusta and you've got to hit it over a bunker from short right and you've got no green to work with and everything is on the line, is that when it's going to be fixed?"
Apparently, given Woods' commitment to practice rounds, the time to fix his short-game is now.
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