Tiger is no longer the pristine athlete

During Wednesday's Pro-Am, a leisurely warm-up for Thursday's opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Woods pulled up about the sixth tee.

"I guess one of many soa€??called professional photographers took a picture right in the middle of my downswing. I ended it and after that felt a pretty good twinge during my back," Woods told reporters.

"I walked rid of it and after that attemptedto hit one on the bottom, hit it in the fairway, nonetheless it didn't Taylormade R11 fairway wood feel very good. But after a couple of holes it loosened up and i am ready to go now," he added.

It turned out nothing too alarming but coming after Woods' last tour outing, on the WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral, when he walked off midway through his final round complaining associated with an Achilles tendon injury, it absolutely was another sign of the first sort world number one's physical problems.

Asked if he was now resigned to constantly having to deal with Achilles and knee problems, the four-times Masters winner replied: "Well, I believe as we know as we grow older...that's just the nature of things.

"Just sort of monitor things. I've changed my practice routine according to that, if things aren't feeling right, I merely won't hit balls for 4 to 5 hours. I'll go develop another thing."

Woods, who's had four operations on his left knee and also frequent Achilles issues, says he could don't manage to keep playing through his problems.

"One with the reasons why I'd taylormade burner superfast 2.0 driver surgeries is always that I'd ignore those and just type of play through it. I needed success, the main problem is, it turned out also detrimental simultaneously physically," he explained.

"I did play through it and that is a primary reason why things happened, why I missed tournaments and why I missed majors, just examine recently. I played through those form of things.

"And you know, just trying to not miss tournaments; and hard. It is certainly hard, because I would like to compete, I wish to be around, sometimes by competing and doing some tips i did I cost myself a number of tournaments I possibly could have played."

But Woods states that three days of therapy addressed the 'tightness' as part of his Achilles from Doral and after discount golf clubs playing a round at Augusta on Sunday then with the Tavistock Cup on Monday and Tuesday, he feels as well as he did before his latest setback.

"There's undoubtedly, i really feel good now and that's even though of treatment, I've had some really good therapists fully briefed with done some really good work.