Tiger: "I follow my old stuff and hit it awful."

Let's get the bizarro lost ball and free drop part out of the way first. Doug Ferguson reports the thinking of PGA Tour rules guru Mark Russell.

"I'm thinking all the time, `If you can't find the ball, the ball is lost.' But based on the evidence we had, somebody must have picked the ball up," Russell said. "Very unusual situation, but based on all the evidence and the situation it was, looked like to me somebody ... where else could the ball have been?"

He got no argument from Geoff Ogilvy, who was playing with Woods and was near the green when he hit his second shot from the fairway. Ogilvy said he saw the ball drop from the trees, though he never saw it hit the ground because it was behind the spectators.

"It got picked up for sure. There can't be any doubt," Ogilvy said. "I guess there's a chance it could roll under the pine straw, but not when 500 people are there looking for it. Usually, Tiger's ball, they all circle around and stare at the ball. And it was gone."

You can watch a highlight package of the round from ESPN here where the shot is seen, but none of the aftermath.

Most interesting of all was this photo posted on Facebook by Bodie Sheffield Tweeted by Stephanie Wei where a spectator is holding up a ball as Tiger's wondering where it might have gone:

Bob Harig reports on the more alarming trend of Tiger's game, well, not looking like Tiger. It's Hank's fault.

But Woods again lamented the inability to play properly with a new swing and lapsing into old habits.

"It all has to do with my setup," he said. "When I get over the golf ball and feel uncomfortable, I hit it great. I want to get comfortable, and I follow my old stuff and hit it awful. I just tried to get uncomfortable and feel as bad as I could and then I striped it.

"I know what I need to do. I just need more reps doing it. ... We've changed a bunch of different things, and every now and then, I fall into the old stuff. And that doesn't work, the combo platter of old and new."