Presidents Cup 2011 Leaderboard: Tiger Woods Is Close to Returning to Dominance

Tiger Woods is a putting stroke away from being the world's best golfer again.

Woods is just 1-3 in his President's Cup matches, but his record doesn't reflect how well he is striking the ball.

On Saturday, Woods and partner Dustin Johnson lost to YE Yang and KT Tim 1-up. However, they would have won this match going away had Woods been able to make a putt.

In this match, Tiger struck the ball as good as he has since pre-scandal Tiger days. On a cold day with driving rains, Woods hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation.

Woods was not surprised with the way he hit the ball. Here is the former world's No. 1 after his match, as quoted on ESPN.com:

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That's the way I've been playing at home, man, People don't understand it. That's what I've been doing. I finally did it out here.

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It is clear that the hard work of reshaping and honing his swing is done. Check out Tiger's grooved swing from a President's Cup practice round.

The rebuilding of his swing has been a lengthy process. He has had to battle through rust, injury and broken confidence.

New he just needs to find his putting stroke. In his loss to Yang and Tim, Tiger missed four putts inside 10 feet. He also missed seven putts inside 15 feet.

It won't be long before Tiger reclaims his putting stroke. He is not missing these putts by a big margin. He is just slightly off.

Putting is all about confidence and feel. Tiger knows how to putt. He just needs to get a few to fall, and that confidence and touch will return. Now that his swing is back, his confidence will grow, and he will soon find that confidence filtering to a reclaimed putting stroke.

When that happens victories will follow.

Leaderboard

The US leads 13-9 heading into Sunday.