Tiger On Decision 18-4: Will Help Some, Not Others

Tiger Woods seemed pretty neutral on the topic of the USGA/R&A Decision that hopes to cut down on the number of rulings created by viewers spotting possible violations in the HD era.

From today's World Challenge press conference:

Q.  As I'm sure you know, a couple of weeks ago the USGA and R&A came out with a bunch of decisions in the rule book that will go in effect on January 1.  The one big one, of course, having to do with video and how it relates to calling in rules violations, et cetera.  That one itself might have helped you greatly had it been in effect at the BMW.  Can you talk about that rule and also if you think they went far enough?

TIGER WOODS:  Well, I think that I talked to Tim at length about this, actually ironically enough, over the course of the year.  He wanted to make a change a little bit sooner, but couldn't quite get the wording how he needed to get the wording correctly.  So he was on board with it long before.  Same thing with Peter Dawson.  They were on board even before this year.

So I think the ruling is such that there is that it certainly is going to help players, but certainly it's not going to save all the players.

My translation: it still doesn't solve the issue of call-ins or player DQ's for signing incorrect scorecards.

Woods addressed many other topics, from the Sochi Games, to 2014 to some increasingly perceptive and spot-on comments about technology aiding lesser players (Tiger is too nice to point out that this comes at the expense of superior players like himself...whereas I have no problem saying it).

Bob Harig covers the various moments from the annual State of Tiger presser.