Woods shrugs off rumours of slump

TIGER WOODS brushed aside suggestions he is in a slump at the NEC world championship in Akron yesterday insisting he is playing some of the best golf of his career.

The 27-year-old says people seem to expect the impossible from him.

"My stroke average has been the best it's been for a long time, and I've been somehow labelled into a slump for some reason," said the world number one.