Woods forgets what Christy knew too well

YOU might have missed it but Tiger Woods made an interesting confession last week.

It wasn’t the kind to make the world stop like some of his admissions last year; in fact it had nothing to do with his personal life. Instead, Tiger simply manned up that in recent years he hadn’t been practicing enough, especially his putting.

It was hardly a shock if you think about it; there are only so many hours in the day and with that well-documented, hectic sex life of his, something more than his marriage was bound to give. But still, it came as something of a surprise. Here was a sportsman who had prided himself on his work ethic, who would deliberately stamp golf balls into bunkers, maybe 200 times in one practice session, all for a shot he might play three times a year in competition. Yet even he had temporarily succumbed to the idea that putting was something that he just “had” a “gift” for.