No offense, but a top ten list in a major tournemount that excludes the name “Tiger Woods” is not one to be taken credibly.
Maybe he’s not the “favorite,” anymore, but he’s playing. ‘Nuff said.
I think Tiger keeps his own "Top Ten" list on his Blackberry.
No offense taken. You might be right. But by his own admission he is not putting well. His current putting statistics PLACE him outside the top 100 golfers from 5-10 feet. By his own admission today in his press conference he said that you can't simply putt well at Augusta for a few holes or even for 9 holes, but rather you have to consistently avoid 3 putts and you will have to make 6-10 footers to save par.
When coupled with the fact that he played poorly at Bay Hill recently, and that he's played very few tournaments this year, and he is by his own admission still adapting his swing ala Sean Foley, and he has only been hitting an average of 4 fairways per round, and hasn't won in over two years, and will be playing the first 2 days with McDowell who has literally cleaned his clock the past two years including beating Tiger in a play-off at his OWN tournament, and his life is still a mess,........I'd say he really isn't a factor.
Now that's not saying that the wide fairways and lack of rough at Augusta plus his excellent memories of playing there won't kick-in, but I doubt it. You see, there reasons why I didn't pick him. Sure you can always be sentimental and look back at his record, but it's how he's playing coming in, and I don't find find that to be very well!