Woods short game decline is mind-blowing to Norman

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Tiger Woods' recent struggles around the greens leave Greg Norman stunned, describing the situation as "mind-blowing."Fourteen- Chris Tierney Jersey time major winner Woods withdrew from the Farmers Insurance Open because of a back injury during Thursday's first round, raising further doubts over his ability to compete at golf's highest level following a host of fitne s i sues.Woods, 39 and long golf's dominant player, has withdrawn from three of his past eight tournaments.Norman, meanwhile, expre sed alarm by the decline in Woods' chipping and putting abilities most notable during last week's second-round 82 at Phoenix. Woods failed to make the cut in that tournament."He was a brilliant short-game player," Norman, a former world No. 1 like Woods, told Perform. "For that to fall off a cliff as quickly as it has is mind-blowing. I've not seen that in any other athlete."The only sort of person I can relate it to is Bernhard Langer. I San Jose Sharks Jersey remember playing with him one time in Europe Tommy Wingels Jersey during the early '80s and all of a sudden he was four-putting from 2 feet and five-putting from 2 feet. He just lost the control of his putting, he got the yips. That's the only other person I think I could use. So is it mental? Or is it physical?"You can see the physical side of it about where his weakne ses are and what he's doing wrong but I think it's more deep-seated. I think it's deep inside his head and maybe deeper than that."Norman was far more positive when discu sing current world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, who will look to add to his haul of four majors and complete a career grand slam at the Masters in April."If you're going to single out one guy who is going to step up to the plate and who might go on to win another 12 majors then it will be it could be Rory," Norman said. "I shouldn Tomas Hertl Jersey 't say it will be, I'm saying Joe Thornton Jersey it could be Rory. He has all of the credentials. I love watching him play golf. I'm a big fan of Rory's and I like the way he conducts himself, I like the way he talks, I like the way he expre ses himself and expre ses his feelings."He doesn't mind saying something silly and then coming back and redacting it in whatever way he wants to suit himself. So he's very refreshing for the game of golf right now."MORE: