The less-than-casual angle to it is that this visit probably provides a good indication that Woods is feeling healthy enough to compete in the 88th Masters when it begins on April 11.
Despite admitting he felt the pressure of playing alongside Michael Jordan – we all saw ‘The Last Dance’ and know that Jordan sometimes treated teammates worse than opponents – Thomas says he made “four birdies in the last seven holes and helped to pay for my first car”.
On the eve of the Valspar Championship, Thomas insisted that he’s putting better than the numbers say. And we have to say that he had a pretty good excuse for those poor stats.
You can’t walk more than a few paces on a tour driving range without seeing a player practising with at least one alignment stick. Watch amateurs at a driving range and you’d be lucky if you found one at all.
This is a downhill hole that’s not even 100 metres. And Finau barely put it off the back with a shot that his TrackMan registered as having 172mph ball speed and carrying 234 metres.
The combination of lots of youthful flexibility with an undeveloped upper body means it’s the lower body that becomes the powerhouse of lots of junior golfers’ swings. And Tiger’s message for Charlie was simple: that’s just fine.
Australian Golf Digest
