Peter Alliss compares Tiger Woods to Pavarotti
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- British player-turned-broadcaster Peter Alliss is among those who believe Tiger Woods is getting too much instruction.
At a news conference before his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, Alliss said Woods' "golfing brain for some reason or another is completely addled." What astonished him was a scene from the practice range at the Masters last year. Alliss said he was sitting with Arnold Palmer at the end of the range.
"And there 50 yards away is Tiger Woods at the green nearest the television facility being shown how to chip," Alliss said. "`You must do it this way, this way.' And I said to Arnold, `Are we seeing ...?' He was the greatest chipper in the world for a period, and this guy is teaching, `No, don't do it that way.'
"It's like Pavarotti saying, `I'm fed up with being a tenor. I think I'm going to sing as a baritone.' Land sake," he said. "That's as stupid as that, in my opinion. That's not a criticism, that's an opinion. But that's why he's fuddled and befuddled. ... But he's gone. He's gone at the moment."
-Golf.com-
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Anyone who doesn't think a big portion of golf is mental need only look at Tiger Woods. Once possibly the greatest player we have ever seen, he has taken a mental nose dive into an alligator infested swamp pond full of un-needed advisors and coaches trying to be the one who "fixed his game". Dump them all, and as Lawrence Fishburn said in the first Matrix movie to Neo "free your mind" and just go hit the friggin ball again...jeeez!