Tiger Switching to Method Putter

[Kieran123]

Sure, Tiger misses his 5-6 footers more than ever, but his 30-40 foot putts don;t come as close as they used to either.....hence the 3 putts and the bogeys.
He needs to get the longer putts closer, then sink the 5 or 6 footers on a regular basis

Driving is FAR better now than ti has been in a long time, and his irons are looking better every tournament

[mjtoal]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/gol...r--putter.html

If the Wail was more absorbent and the ink didn't run, there would be a good use for it.

However, we now know that like some of Tiger's other liaisons, this one was loveless and unrequited.

[Fozcycle]

I wonder how many Nike methods will be returned this week?

[sean_miller]

I wonder how many Nike methods will be returned this week?

They should be like big screen TVs purchased the week before the Superbowl - no refunds.

[motteler621]

well for all you guys who think he switched to the method putter for nike giving him money then I guess you are wrong. I dont think Tiger would of basically said this putter sucks,lol and switched back in the middle of the tournament if they paid him to use it and promote it. He didnt promote it well for throwing it out

[sean_miller]

well for all you guys who think he switched to the method putter for nike giving him money then I guess you are wrong. I dont think Tiger would of basically said this putter sucks,lol and switched back in the middle of the tournament if they paid him to use it and promote it. He didnt promote it well for throwing it out

Maybe there was an escape clause? Who knows for sure!?!?

[Game]

Maybe there was an escape clause? Who knows for sure!?!?

I was down at the nike oven last week and saw the putting lab where they showed tiger his putting stroke with his scotty and compared skid. The method putter just isn't something that you should change to right before a major. Start your new equipment out softly and practice often with it. Personally, I use the method and I think it is a great putter once you get used to it. The other nike guys use it or the prototype that became it and putted fine. Casey won match play with it and I think it was more a mistake from tiger to think that switching something after all these years would suddenly fix it for him.

He decided himself to try the new putter and they just gave him what he wanted is what I gained from the Oven. They were really hoping to see him use it well because he could pretty much screw them over by switching putters back right away.

[BonoVox]

Well i'm sure he doesn't miss em on purpose. I think he has neglected his putting some to get his swing in order.

Good point.

[motteler621]

They should be like big screen TVs purchased the week before the Superbowl - no refunds.

haha, they do that?

[Zeph]

Well i'm sure he doesn't miss em on purpose. I think he has neglected his putting some to get his swing in order.

You never know. Here is what one of the commentators said when the TV showed him hitting a couple of practice putts before the round that did not went in:

Source: BBC And here you see Tiger practicing missing putts, very unusual for him

Probably not word by word, but something like that. Best comment all week.

[Clambake]

At the US Open I was lucky to be in a great viewing position on a few greens when Tiger came through. A couple times I was looking right down the line of his putt. He'd do his practice strokes, and the arc looked perfect, but when he'd then hit the putt there was a little hitch in his backswing - it looked like a little twitch where the putter head didn't stroke smoothly. And sure enough he missed each of them to the right. Perhaps age is starting to catch up with him a bit and he's losing some of those steely nerves on the green.

[billysandy]

Did he switch back to the Scotty for the last round then?

I was on the 14th grandstand watching him putt, and i used binoculars to look at his putter. I was very surprised at that point to see he had changed back to his scotty. It was a silly decision for him to change in the first place.

[Shorty]

It was a silly decision for him to change in the first place.

How would you know? It was obviously a decision not taken lightly.

[Bigtank]

The SC or the Method, or the Anser he used in the amatuer days, they are in affect all the same putter...in shape and alignment. However, weight and materials are far different. I personally think Nike (off the rack) sticks are horrible, minus the stuff their tour guys are getting, and that stuff is protype which for Nike means "copied from another brand".
Tiger probably threw out there that he was thinking of making a putter change, and Nike jumped at the chance to add a swoosh to that 14th club. The fact that it was a Nike stick is all about his sponser. If he wanted a putter shaped like a TW with a grip made from the scrotum of the endanged Northern Atlantic Ice Otter, they would have kicked ole' Scotty out of the bed at any hour have him mock it up and sent it over on its own private jet no problems...if it were about the performance of the putter. They just had Nike copy his Scotty and add the "New and Improved" insert into it.
Tiger made the mistake of switching out a piece of equipment days before they use it. Most of those guys only switch to a new piece of equipment in the off season, or at least after weeks of testing and we are talking about the most important and "feel" club in the bag.

FYI...I walked into my local golf store on Wednesday before the Open looking for a very specific Scotty to replace my old C62 Model 02, and the salesman could not wait to pull from a pile of 20-30 of the new Tiger Woods Nike MEthod putters. This very same sales guy that only weeks ago explained the incredible virtues of the Cameron, now scoffed at me when I asked him about my specific Scotty in mind. Now for the conspiricy theroist out there...How on earth did the box golf store already have so many of this very specific $300 putter, but only had 5-10 of the other models total????

[iacas]

The SC or the Method, or the Anser he used in the amatuer days, they are in affect all the same putter...in shape and alignment. However, weight and materials are far different.

Actually Nike matched the weight and even the design of his SC with his Method putter. Same measurements, everything.

[James_Black]

Actually Nike matched the weight and even the design of his SC with his Method putter. Same measurements, everything.

so basically it was a scotty with a nike insert?

[iacas]

so basically it was a scotty with a nike insert?

Yeah... and some would tell you his SC was basically an Anser with someone else's name on it.

[te3point5]

If you look the two up, along with the Anser IACAS talked about, you'll laugh at how exactly alike they look. Not to mention the countless other clones of the "anser" style putters out there. Same thing with Scotty's Laguna and the Ping Zing putter. Callaway/odessy isn't above copying designs either.

I'm actually suprised there havent been more lawsuits (Maybe there were, just not public) about people stealing IP.