Tiger: Pain Free, Meds Free, Just Needs Good Sequencing

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Here's Tiger Woods, following nine-holes at Valhalla Wednesday. He tees off with Phil Mickelson and Padraig Harrington at 8:35 off the 10th tee Thursday. PGA.com Live Streaming begins, magically, at 8:30 a.m. ET. TNT coverage begins at 1 p.m. ET.

From the start of the transcript, the relevant stuff about his health.

Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Probably yesterday afternoon. My range of motion was good. I started my firing sequence was back to normal the sequencing was good. If my sequencing is good then it's all good.

            Q. How does it feel to be back?

            TIGER WOODS: It feels great to be back here. The fans are enthusiastic. They're loud. They're into. It's a totally different golf course than what I played in 2000. These greens are all different. I have my book from 2000; it's useless. There's some new things that we have to learn out there. Joey has been here on the ground. He's got a pretty good handle on it. We'll run through some more of it as we go.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: It's not ‑‑ as I said, it's not the site of the surgery. This is something totally different. As I said when I landed, it jarred it and jarred it lose, made it come out. As I was explaining to you guys last week, I haven't been able to do my agility stuff because I'm still building back up, still playing. I can't do both at the same time. So when the season is over, in the off season, getting back to my agility work, my explosiveness, my power, all that stuff, back up to where I used to be.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Yes. Make every putt.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Say again.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Pain meds, no. I'm not in any pain. That is the good part.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Say again.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: I did ‑‑ I hit it in my hitting bag. So I was doing some video work, trying to make sure that my swing was where I wanted it and some of the things that I didn't like about it was going on last week. And I was able to basically make slow motion swings, make sure the ‑‑ what I was feeling and what was actually happening were matching up.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Say again.

            Q. (Inaudible)?

            TIGER WOODS: Yeah, I did. I felt pretty good about how I played and the shots I hit. I need to get more feel for how this golf course is playing. I'm not used to seeing the chipping areas like this. We didn't have that in 2000. It was just deep blue grass. That's a bit of a different look and different options.

            We're experimenting with some different clubs, shots. Trajectories, Strick and I were talking about how the bounce is actually pretty true. There's some different options which we weren't used to in 2000.

            Q. And you're pain‑free?

            TIGER WOODS: Pain‑free, yes, except for the headache of talking to you guys.