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ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL PRESENTED BY MASTERCARD


March 14, 2008


Tiger Woods


ORLANDO, FLORIDA

Q. Thoughts for the weekend?
TIGER WOODS: I'll have to play better and make a lot more putts than I have been. I just never got the speed of these things today. I kept leaving them short and had a hard time getting to the hole.

Q. Frustrating right now, you birdied the ninth hole --
TIGER WOODS: I just wasn't swinging the club very well today and when I did put myself in position to make a putt, I didn't make them.

Q. Seven back, two days to go, still within striking distance?
TIGER WOODS: Oh, yeah. I just need to play better and obviously make more putts than I have been. If I can do that, I'll get myself back in the tournament.

Q. Any idea what the problem is?
TIGER WOODS: Yeah, they are all short. I just could not get them to the hole. It was frustrating.

Q. So the last one --
TIGER WOODS: Sums up the whole day right there.

Q. Your irons?
TIGER WOODS: About the same, I didn't hit them very good today. It was decent, not great.

Q. Last time you played greens this slow?
TIGER WOODS: THE TOUR Championship they were slow, but they were smoother. These are slow and -- like I said yesterday, the hard part was every green is slightly different speeds, and I have to make the adjustments and I was struggling to make the adjustment today.

Q. Is there a part of you that's afraid to give it a go?
TIGER WOODS: You don't want those coming back, not on these things.

Q. 3-putts today?
TIGER WOODS: No, zero.

Q. That's good.
TIGER WOODS: That is good. Just lag them up there and tap them in.

Q. How about the shot out of the rough on 18?
TIGER WOODS: Well, it was a hit-and-hope. I had 83 to the hole and I had 6-iron and just aimed a little left of the hole, swing hard and hopefully it comes out. If it doesn't, I'm dropping, probably making seven.

Q. You pushed a couple at the end.
TIGER WOODS: More than just a couple. Yeah, I was laying the club down quite a bit pretty much all day, and just one of those things where if I stayed back, I hit the flip hook. If I fight the flip hook, I get ahead of it, I hit it straight right and somewhere in between, you have to time it. Not where you need to have it. I'll do some work tonight and probably do a little work tomorrow morning and I'll be all right.

Q. A timing issue?
TIGER WOODS: It's a club position issue. If you have the club in a bad position, even if you're right on timing, it's not what you want to have happen.

Q. Somebody says Ben Hogan, what do you think?
TIGER WOODS: Well, he hit it pretty good.

Q. Can you go at the flags a little more aggressively?
TIGER WOODS: I guess you could. But I wasn't swinging good enough to take advantage of that. I was playing a little more conservative on some of my distances.

Q. With the work you've done on your putting, does it not matter a week like this?
TIGER WOODS: I hit good putts, and just obviously hit them harder.

Q. Is the practice putting green like the greens on the course?
TIGER WOODS: No.

Q. No correlation?
TIGER WOODS: Zero.

Q. So you can't get ready for it no matter what you do?
TIGER WOODS: It's the best green on the property.

Q. What do you do to simulate?
TIGER WOODS: You have to hit them hard -- for me, I had to hit them hard, and I didn't do that today. I struggled with it, and you know, feeding the putts down, you can't do that. And then with a little bit of moisture on it, just made it that much more difficult for me.

Q. Does your game plan change at all for tomorrow?
TIGER WOODS: No, it's the same. Just try to hit the ball a little better and give myself some putting chances and hopefully I can give myself putts where I can go ahead and take a run at them and give them a roll and hopefully go in.

Q. Do you sacrifice some precision?
TIGER WOODS: Well, it's just different, and we've done it before. We've had to make the adjustments, and I just need to do it. I just need to make those adjustments.

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