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Tiger still worried by neck injury

ESPN staff
June 3, 2010
Tiger Woods is confident he can compete at the Memorial Tournament

Tiger Woods has claimed his neck injury is "not where I want it to be" but feels he is fit enough to be competitive at the Memorial Tournament.

The world No. 1 pulled out of the Players Championship during the final round citing a neck complaint. An MRI scan highlighted inflammation in the area that forced Woods to take a short break from play and practice.

Woods returned to action in the Memorial Skins charity event on Wednesday and is now looking forward to attacking a tournament he has won on four occasions - including 12 months ago.

"The neck feels pretty good," Woods said. "It's still not where I want it to be but the inflammation has calmed down. It's a little sore after a good practice but I can recover for the next day, which I wasn't able to do prior to this, which is good.

"After Sawgrass it was a week and a half before I picked up a club, but the past five or six days I've been going at it pretty good. It could have been anything, the worst case scenario was a bulging disc, but the MRI just showed a lot of inflammation, which has since calmed down."

Woods is currently operating without a coach after splitting with Hank Haney and he is in no rush to appoint a successor. "I've been using video and working on it that way; that's the great thing about technology," he said. "[I have] no plans for a new coach."

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