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Tiger excited about progress for 2012

Tiger Woods is relishing the prospect of playing a full schedule in 2012, as he feels he is finally attuned to the swing changes he has made with Sean Foley.

After a couple of years in the golfing wilderness, former world No. 1 Woods has produced some promising play in recent weeks - finishing third in the Australian Open and impressing at the Presidents Cup.

Woods claims that having shrugged off injury, he is able to work tirelessly in practice to get his game towards where he wants it to be.

"I've made tremendous strides," Woods, who will tee it up at the Chevron World Challenge on Thursday, said. "As I said, in the wind, you get exposed, and if you saw what I did in Australia, I hit the ball pretty good.

"If you look at my schedule over the years, I've never really played a lot. I like to practise and then go out and play. What people don't realise is that I wasn't able to - this year I wasn't able to play at home. People don't realise at home how much golf I play when I'm getting ready for an event, how many holes I play. I play a lot, and I wasn't able to do any of that, because I was under a strict ball count for the day. Once that was released and I was able to go is when I started making some serious strides, working with Sean, because then I could get the reps in.

"I've always felt in my career more comfortable when I was able to practise a lot, and I'm not one of those guys who can play a bunch of weeks in a row. I'd much rather just practise a lot, come out, play and be fully invested in that one event and then go back and kind of tinker around what did I do right, what did I do wrong."

Woods is confident he will be able to mount a challenge in the majors in 2012.

"I am excited about the progress I have made," he said. "I am looking forward to it [2012]. I am looking forward to getting out and playing a full schedule, which I haven't done for quite some time and get my number of events in and prepare and practise and play at my normal pace to get ready for the major championship and try and peak four times a year - which I have not had the opportunity to do for the past few years."

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