On Tiger Woods…
Frank Nobilo – “The coup de gras really happened at 18 [with a] groundball. In baseball, he would have gotten on base, but really the story of his day was off-base.”
David Duval – “I think that there is a big disconnect between the driving range and the golf course… He believes 100% in his technique… It is a very long road at this point, and you’re really not seeing a lot of positive signs anywhere as soon as he steps on the golf course in a competitive round.”
Frank Nobilo – “In golf you always compare a player to whoever played the best that day. And sadly for Tiger Woods we don’t even use that comparison. We compare him to the best today, which were the 65s, and to [the player he used to be]. And that’s really unfair.”
Brandel Chamblee – “At his best he showed us what a human being was capable of… The apocalypse of imaginative power happens when you turn your game over to someone else and start to look outside of yourself for answers. I’m thoroughly convinced that the way to get out of this is to do it on your own… If he got away to a [driving] range he’d figure it out on his own… That’s how you learn this game, by imitation, and then creation with imagination… We know he has the ability, but he’s got so many thoughts in his head.”
Notah Begay – “Confidence is such an allusive thing for any athlete. You have to get positive reinforcement for any game you play. He’s not getting that. He has to go on faith. He has to go on a belief that what he is doing and the choices that he’s made are the right things for his game… He wants to stick this thing out, and I think we are going to see him stay on this course through the summer, through the next few events and find out if he can turn any of this around in any way, shape or form.”
