2011 PGA Championships: Tiger Woods Reveals Struggles with Game

Atlanta Athletic Club, Johns Creek,GA—Although early reports indicated that Tiger Woods would not meet with media after his catastrophic first round, he did in fact hold an interview session in which he revealed the struggles he is having with his game right now.

"I've been in this process before: I've been through it with Butch; I've been through it with Hank; and now I've been through it with Sean. I just thought, this is a major, and you peak for these events. And once you get to a major championship, you just let it fly, let it go," he admitted. 

"Because I was three-under early, and I said, you know what, every shot I hit up to that point were all mechanical thoughts, I put the club in a certain position, and I was doing that and I said, you know what, I'm feeling good. Let's just let it go. And it cost me the whole round," he added.

He said he was having trouble working the ball the way he had previously, making it hard to trust his alignment on shots. 

"I aimed left for a fade and it doesn't move;" he explained. "It moves about a yard or two and I'm used to having it cut a lot more than that, and my draw used to move a lot more than that.  So it's hard for me right now to aim closer to flags or closer to where I want the ball to end up. I thought I was beyond that."

He said he was not down on himself, but he was angry at his performance.

Kathy Bissell is a Golf Writer for Bleacher Report. Unless otherwise noted, all quotes were obtained first-hand or from official interview materials from the USGA, PGA Tour or PGA of America.

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