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Woods always expected difficult spell

ESPN staff
May 9, 2012
Tiger Woods missed the cut at Quail Hollow last week © Getty Images
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Tiger Woods feels that the woes he went through at The Masters were a necessary evil, because they opened his eyes to the improvements he still needed to make in his game.

Woods, who is in action at the Players Championship this week, struggled with his swing at Augusta as he finished the tournament well down the field at five over.

He said a couple of weeks afterwards that he felt those problems were now behind him, but last time out failed to make the weekend at Quail Hollow.

However, he is not letting that disappointment get to him, as he believes it was always going to take time to implement changes to his swing under the guidance of coach Sean Foley.

"I went for probably almost two years without doing much with Butch [Harmon] before it kicked in; and about a year-and-a-half with Hank [Haney]," Woods said. "With Sean it's been a couple years now, maybe a year-and-a-half, somewhere around there, almost two years. But I've been hurt for a majority of that, so I haven't been able to put in the time. In essence, it takes time.

"Augusta was nice to have happen, actually, in the big scheme of things. Just like it was at Dubai a couple of years ago when I couldn't cut the golf ball. I felt like I could have won that golf tournament, but not being able to cut it cost me eight or nine shots that week. Augusta was one of those things where it was just pretty glaring, some of the things I needed to work on."

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