Tiger Woods has put himself in contention at the Arnold Palmer Invitational after a 4-under-par 68 on Friday at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge. However by the former World Number ones' own, admission he felt he could have had a “special” round if not for five putts he left “dead-centre short.”
Two weeks ago, Woods switched from his usual Scotty Cameron putter to a Nike Method putter and he is using a different version of the Nike putter he used at TPC Blue Monster at Doral, but Woods seemed happy with how the ball is coming off the face.
“It’s coming off very similar to my Cameron and releasing obviously how I like it,” Woods said.
One change from two weeks ago, though, is that Woods had the grooves shaved down even further because he felt the ball was coming off it too fast.
“I had a hard time getting the ball to the hole today,” Woods continued. “I was very surprised how slow these things were today. They must have soaked them pretty good last night because balls were holding, they were spinning back a little bit, very different than what we had yesterday.”
”With the greens as soft as they are, you can be a little more aggressive,” Woods said.
“We are trying to build towards the first major, and that’s kind of how my game is,” Woods said. “It’s building and it’s coming.”
